Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experiences that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes.

I became the Dalai Lama not on a voluntary basis.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. 

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one's person.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

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

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people. 

There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.