I think, if you have enough inner resources, then you can live in isolation for long periods of time and not feel diminished by it.

When fear sets in, you don't trust others and when you don't trust anyone then you become selfish.

Jobless people will have no self-confidence. And they feel they are worthless because when you don't have a job you have to rely on someone.

The main aim of the [political] dialogue should be to resolve the problems of the nation, not to find who is the winner and who is the loser. That's not what it's all about. It's to try and find an answer that is acceptable to all parties concerned, which would of course require some give and take.

If ideas and beliefs are to be denied validity outside the geographical and cultural bounds of their origin, Buddhism would be confined to north India, Christianity to a narrow tract in the Middle East and Islam to Arabia.

Please use your freedom to promote ours.

After I was released, people used to keep asking me, 'what's it like to be free? And it was very difficult for me to answer. I'd always felt free. As far as my state of mind was concerned, I didn't feel any different...People ask me about what sacrifices I've made. I always answer: I've made no sacrifices, I've made choices.