All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

 It is the prime responsibility of every citizen to feel that his country is free and to defend its freedom is his duty. 

When you make fun of somebody who is hurt, you add insult to their injury!

Peace is its own reward.

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn't been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

Well begun is half done.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason - to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.