History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. 

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade.

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

When you meet intellectuals wanting in common sense, your frustration knows no bounds.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

What we think, we become.

Work hard. Life will be full of obstacles and you've to overcome them all.

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.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained. 

 It is the prime responsibility of every citizen to feel that his country is free and to defend its freedom is his duty. 

I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason - to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.