God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can.

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, event in their own backyard.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. 

I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

I totally disagree with the view that the Tibet struggle will die, and there will be no hope for Tibet, after the Dalai Lama passed away.

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

Religion is a matter between the man and his Maker. 

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.