The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

I don't like to repeat success, I like to go on to other things.

It is difficult to violently suppressed people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together. 

The best and noblest gifts of humanity cannot be the monopoly of a particular race or country; its scope may not be limited nor may it be regarded as the miser's hoard buried underground.

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, acts rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today. 

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

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. 

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.