The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

We are Indians, firstly and lastly.

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

I became the Dalai Lama not on a voluntary basis.

You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

The best way to deal with an argument is to avoid entering into one.

Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart... Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.