I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.'

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

We can't afford to be killing one another.

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.

I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

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.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

A manager is an assistant to his men.