A jug fills drop by drop.

Let your life lightly dance on the edge of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the heart of the actors. 

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. 

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

You reach a point where you don't work for money.

All the nations and peoples are too closely knit together today for any one of them to imagine that it can live apart. Peace has been said to be indivisible, so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and so also is disaster in this one world that can no longer be split into isolated fragments.

I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason - to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.