When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

The Tibetan people will need to determine who the next reincarnation of the Dalai Lama is.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. 

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

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

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen. 

Shall sweet love prosper or high dreams have a place. Amid the tumult of reverberant strife.