“When you rest in quietness and your image of yourself fades and your image of the world fades and your ideas of others fade what is left a luminous empty awareness”

“I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves.”

“Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.”

“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”

“When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'”