We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. 

 सच्‍चा धर्म वही है जो स्‍वतंत्रता को परम मूल्‍य की तरह स्‍थापित करे।

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Africans require, want, to franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

I became the Dalai Lama not on a voluntary basis.

The soul never thinks without a picture.

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.