As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there is no use. 

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

Our mind is getting used to believing the blatant lies of crafty people.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.