The things that we use today are products of our cultural heritage and economic development.

Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time. 

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

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.

A healthy body is an ideal home for a healthy mind.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.

 India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator. 

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.

Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.