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

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. 

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

The cunning manage to con the innocent because they are gullible.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely on my imagination.

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

The food habits of the different classes of Hindus have been as fixed and stratified as their cults. Just as Hindus can be classified on their basis of their cults, so also they can be classified on the basis of their habits of food.

Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.