Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.

If I had remained in Lhasa, even without the Chinese occupation, I would probably have carried the ceremonial role in some orthodox way.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God. 

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

There is no end to the adventure that we can have if only we seek them with your eyes open.

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news. 

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.