Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

The negligence of a few could easily send a ship to the bottom, but if it has the wholehearted cooperation of all on board it can be safely brought to part.

We welcome the scrutiny of the world - because what you see in America is a country that has steadily worked to address our problems and make our union more perfect.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

Our output is alwasy far below our maximum capacity.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. 

Do not cry, new wishes, new dreams will take place. The unspent years of joy will happen and there will be no sorrow left.

With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.

If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.

I became the Dalai Lama not on a voluntary basis.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.