Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

Our mind is getting used to believing the blatant lies of crafty people.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

We have to shed mutual bickering, shed the difference of being high or low, develop a sense of equality and banish untouchability. We have to restore the conditions of Swaraj prevalent prior to British rule and live like children of the same father.

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical things to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist has done that. Other lamas, I don't think they ever pay attention to modern science. Since my childhood, I have a keen interest.