We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.

We’re a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we’re all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that’s a marvelous thing.

A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

All religions must be tolerated… for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

I tend to stay up late, not because I’m partying but because it’s the only time of the day when I’m alone and don’t have to be performing.

We are a nation of communities… a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won’t get much sleep.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

For 2,500 years, India has never invaded anybody.

It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.

What a nice night for an evening.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.

We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal.

Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they’ve had forever. And they’ve been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.

We are not at war against Islam.

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that’s something that we should think about.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.

Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.

As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there’s no use.

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won’t be a world – at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.

During the second half of the twentieth century, I had the privilege of living through years of intensive erudition, and I realized that Canadians, located in the northernmost region of this hemisphere, were always respectful towards our country.