Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

I'm a storyteller; that's what exploration really is all about. Going to places where others have not been and returning to tell a story they haven't heard before.

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.

If you can, help others; if you can't do that, at least don't harm them.

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.

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

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been forced to fulfill themselves. 

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishmonent and the other by acts of love. Power based  love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.