Whether you call it Buddhism or other religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

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

I've been here before and will come again, but I'm not going this trip through.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.

Indeed, we're strongest when the face of America isn't only a soldier carrying a gun but also a diplomat negotiating peace, a Peace Corps volunteer bringing clean water to a village, or a relief worker stepping off a cargo plane as floodwaters rise.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

Study' was the cry that reverberated in the corridors of my mind. Study to enable yourself to face the arguments advanced by opposition. Study to arm yourself with arguments in favor of your cult. I began to study.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

Peace is its own reward.