I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. 

Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.

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

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization. 

I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren't random.

Indeed, we're strongest when the face of America isn't only a soldier carrying a gun but also a diplomat negotiating peace, a Peace Corps volunteer bringing clean water to a village, or a relief worker stepping off a cargo plane as floodwaters rise.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.