Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Religion is a matter of faith. Science has to face challenges at every step.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible. 

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

I totally disagree with the view that the Tibet struggle will die, and there will be no hope for Tibet, after the Dalai Lama passed away.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

Past, present, and future are momentary in nature!

When you make fun of somebody who is hurt, you add insult to their injury!

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.