War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days. 

Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and more. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.

I solemnly assure you that I will not die as a Hindu.

Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

The new has come and now the old retires. And so the past becomes a mountain cell. Where lone apart old hermit memories dwell.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me.

I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.