If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work. 

All the political movements of our country that have hitherto played any important role in our modern history had been lacking in the ideal at the achievement of which they aimed. Revolutionary movement is no exception.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.

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

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

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

Wit is educated insolence

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.