I became the Dalai Lama not on a voluntary basis.

The best thing about books is that you don’t need passwords to open them and a battery to read them.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see. 

Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.

The reins of the world are slipping into the hands of delinquents.

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. 

Intuition and urge are two different things. You must learn to differentiate between the two.

Distraction is just another form of attraction.

Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is completely different. I don't use one piece of technology that I used when I started directing.

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

Many people are forced to do jobs that they don’t like—just to make both ends meet.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.