When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'

As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there is no use. 

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

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

Sabotage did not involve loss of life, and it offered the best hope for future race relations. Bitterness would be kept to a minimum and, if the policy bore fruit, democratic government could become a reality.

I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith. 

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Yes, we've still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

Materialism and commercialisation are destroying the basic human nature.