On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

My life is my message.

All cartoon characters and cables must be exaggerated, caricature. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. 

We believe in your idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

A war based on Satyagraha is always of two kinds. One is the war we wage against injustice, and the other we fight our own weaknesses.

In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

I became the Dalai Lama not on a voluntary basis.