The only source of knowledge is experience.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

I became the Dalai Lama not on a voluntary basis.

Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I didn't read.

Enlightenment is the ultimate destination of the spiritual path.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.

Exercise utmost care in selecting  your life partner because an asset is an asset, a libility-a liability.