Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time. 

Citizenship consists in the service of the country.

I believe in being an innovator.

My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese people is very essential.

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

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

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.

We can't afford to be killing one another.

Sleep is the best meditation.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.