The whole existence of man is a ceaseless duel between the forces of life and death.

Buddha renounced every worldly happiness because he wanted to share with the whole world his happiness which was to be had by men who sacrificed and suffered in the search for truth.

Where my own mission is concerned, my thought is active, and I try to wish everyone well in spite of doubts and mistrust.

A country that is governed by its national army can never be morally free and, therefore, its so-called weakest member can never rise to his full moral height.

Men of stainless character and self purification will easily inspire confidence and automatically purify the atmosphere around them.

I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live, I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species.

It is a mark of wisdom not to kick away the very step from which we have risen higher. The removal of one step from a staircase brings down the whole of it.