In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

Fear is a double-edged weapon: it can force you to do something or prevent you from doing something.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case. 

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. 

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.