The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

The best way to solve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it. 

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

Man is a universe within himself.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.