My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese people is very essential.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.

 When I am overcome by an inflated ego, I think of the lofty mountains.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving. 

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

Wit is educated insolence

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America.

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.