"In our own case, we don't consider the loss of a monastery or a monument the end of our entire way of life. If one monastery is destroyed, sometimes it happens."
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"Peace is the Only Way for the survival of Humanity"
"Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values."
"As human, we all have the same human potential, unless there is some sort of retarded brain function. The wonderful human brain is the source of our strength and the source of our future, provided we utilize it in the right direction. If we use the brilliant human mind in the wrong way, it is really a disaster."
"Without religion, also there is a way, it could be this way, through education, through scientific findings, then you get conviction. Not necessarily really love other, but for their own interest they are showing love, compassion to other like that."
"I don't want to be a prisoner in a palace, living in such a constricted way - too tight!"
"The longest way round is the shortest way home"
"Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes."
"The longest way round is the shortest way home. (Quoting Alexander MacLaren, The Wearied Christ and Other Sermons)"
"The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior."
"But what would have been the good?" Aslan said nothing. "You mean," said Lucy rather faintly, "that it would have turned out all right – somehow? But how? Please, Aslan! Am I not to know?" "To know what would have happened, child?" said Aslan. "No. Nobody is ever told that." "Oh dear," said Lucy. "But anyone can find out what will happen," said Aslan. "If you go back to the others now, and wake them up; and tell them you have seen me again; and that you must all get up at once and follow me – what will happen? There is only one way of finding out."
"I cannot speak for the way God deals with others; I only know how he deals with me personally."
"It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself."
"We have all heard of the web of life. The way we live threatens to trap us in a web of death."
"Everyone lives the way she knows best. What I mean by 'their happiness' is living a life untouched as much as possible by the knowledge that we are really, all of us, alone. That's not a bad thing."
"We can't change the way Washington works unless we first change how Congress works."
"make away out of no way"
"... the fact is it didn't happen in the first month, the first six weeks, in a way that was at all acceptable. And since I'm in charge, obviously, we screwed it up."
"With respect to the pledge I made that if you like your plan you can keep it. The way I put that forward unequivocally ended up not being accurate."
"I do love the Waldorf-Astoria, though. You know, I hear that from the doorstep you can see all the way to the Russian tea room."