You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

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

I think government can't do much.

I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.

Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.

The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushed into the forest and takes away the world that used to be.

You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me.

'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

If I had remained in Lhasa, even without the Chinese occupation, I would probably have carried the ceremonial role in some orthodox way.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Education is the best provision for old age.