What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq's future is not.

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

Wit is educated insolence

I'm not an expert on the arms race.

My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese people is very essential.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. 

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?