Shall hope prevail where clamorous hate is a rite?

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history. l 

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen. 

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

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

People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing.

In America, there is a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

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