There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reached the mountaintop of our desires.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all other courts.

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

There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise. 

Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

Life has its struggles which require bravery and vigour. Thus it needs much more courage to live than to die.