Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old. 

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

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.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

Spirituality begins where worldly wisdom ends.

By ancestry, I was born to rule.

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news. 

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.