Don’t see others doing better than you, beat your own records everyday, because success is a fight between you and yourself.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

The concept of God is as much a matter of speculation as faith.

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and become the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

My social philosophy may be said to be enshrined in three words: liberty, equality and fraternity. Let no one, however, say that I have borrowed by philosophy from the French Revolution. I have not. My philosophy has roots in religion and not in political science. I have derived them from the teachings of my Master, the Buddha.

One of the greatest disease is to be nobody to anybody.

I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.

Do not cry, new wishes, new dreams will take place. The unspent years of joy will happen and there will be no sorrow left.

 It is human beings’ sinister mind that produces viruses as biological weapons.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.