I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

I think there's every reason this 21st century will be much happier.

That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

As long as I have life, as long as blood flows through the arms of mine, I shall not leave the cause of freedom.

We can't afford to be killing one another.

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

If you know it is going to be a tight-rope walk, you might as well carry a bamboo to balance yourself.

Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.