If you know it is going to be a tight-rope walk, you might as well carry a bamboo to balance yourself.

The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.  

Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous. 

I became the Dalai Lama not on a voluntary basis.

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.