A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. 

Every mother is born of another mother. So, the legacy will continue forever.

India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

I would wear the blue overalls of the fieldworker and often wore round, rimless glasses known as Mazzawati teaglasses. I had a car, and I wore a chauffeur's cap with my overalls. The pose of chauffeur was convenient because I could travel under the pretext of driving my master's car.

The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

Change in all things is sweet.

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason - to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.