The negligence of a few could easily send a ship to the bottom, but if it has the wholehearted cooperation of all on board it can be safely brought to part.

Life should be great rather than long.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education. 

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time. 

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

It is our duty to pay for our liberty with our own blood. The freedom that we shall win through our sacrifice and exertion, we shall be able to preserve with your own strength.

To my mind the old masters are not at; their value is in their scarcity.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

The Tibetan people will need to determine who the next reincarnation of the Dalai Lama is.

By common endeavour we can raise the country to a new greatness, while a lack of unity will expose us to fresh calamities.