I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.

Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.

Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.

It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.

Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each of us. To build for man a world without fear, we must be without fear. To build a world of justice, we must be just.

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

For all that has been, Thank you. For all that is to come, Yes!

Be with your loved ones and feed your soul with the deep connections that money can't buy. Your bank richness will never amount to the richness of love.

Thank heaven I have given up smoking again! . . . God! I feel fit. A different man. Irritable moody depressed rude perhaps . . . but the lungs are fine.

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.

In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.

Let the bugles sound the Truce of God to the whole world forever.

A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives.

For me, Buddhism is a psychology and a philosophy that provides a means, upayas, for working with the mind.

I've quoted Lost in America several times.

Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness.

I have a deep-seated respect for parrots. As gifted as I am with all other wildlife, parrots have this uncanny desire to kill me. I'm not sure why, but they're like my kryptonite!