My attitude towards the British is one of utter friendliness and respect.

Where there is love there is life.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

The future depends on what you do today.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

Until we become the change we seek, the change we seek will never come.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

Some dead people said smart stuff.

I'm the best at talking trash I'm also the best at going out there and backing it up.

Zen students see themselves as athletes. Their competitive sport is enlightenment; only with enlightenment do we compete.

The arrogance that accompanies merit offends us even more than the arrogance of people who are lacking in merit: since merit itself offends us.

Your success & happiness lies in you.

I don't think that [normalization] necessarily is going to damage the emerging economies.

A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.

Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it.