Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. 

Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

He who hath many friends hath none.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.  

Fools buy houses—the wise live in them.

I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

Every citizen of India must remember that he is an Indian and he has every right in this country but with certain duties.

Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.