It is better to deal with wrongs immediately than to postpone your action till it snowballs into something big.

 Plan for the future but don’t starve yourself to death in the process.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

I mean, you have to be able - you have to have made the commitment within yourself to do whatever it takes to get the job done and to try to inspire other people to do it, because obviously the first rule is you can't do it by yourself.

That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.

Someone saved a guy who was committing suicide. Now both of them believe in life after death.

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future. 

We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I didn't read.

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