The law is reason, free from passion.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil toh shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.

It'll be all of our efforts together. It won't won't ever be exactly the way I imagined it. And that is, I think, an important lesson as well, is that in any group enterprise it's going to be the sum total of the group.

Blood and tears are going to be our lot, whether we like them or not. Our blood and tears will flow; may be the parched soil of India needs them so that the fine flower of freedom may grow again.

One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.

I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.

I became the Dalai Lama not on a voluntary basis.