It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

Weak leaders use others to defend them. The strong fight their own battles.

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

I became the Dalai Lama not on a voluntary basis.

I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.

I should tie myself to a particular system of society other than of socialism.