It can be simplified easily, if an individual works his heel peak for the freedom of the nation, he might get punished by the Englishmen, but if a group of individuals form a community to fight for freedom, they get success. 

We found ourselves in a soup, when the waiter spilled the soup we ordered, on us!

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

That the object of the Brahmins in giving up beef-eating was to snatch away from the Buddhist Bhikshus the supremacy they had acquired is evidenced by the adoption of vegetarianism by Brahmins.

By common endeavour we can raise the country to a new greatness, while a lack of unity will expose us to fresh calamities.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. 

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time. 

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

The Tibetan people will need to determine who the next reincarnation of the Dalai Lama is.

If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.