The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.

The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.

I don't argue with my enemies; I explain to their children.

There's no such thing as a grown up person.

In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.

Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.

The only person who needs to know about failure is yourself.

War is life war is the origin of all things.

But the central point is that any campaign against Iraq, whatever the strategy, cost and risks, is certain to divert us for some indefinite period from our war on terrorism.

We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.

If you're studying Buddhism you never really have enough time because you're going to die.

Who hath no more bread then neede, must not keepe a dog.

The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.

The new vulcanism is really a daring attempt to connect the present, incomprehensible world to a past, unknown one.

My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.

. . . If you are really my children, you will fear nothing, stop at nothing. You will be like lions. We must rouse India and the whole world. No cowardice.