An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

Dictators are the most insecure people on earth.

As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there is no use. 

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. 

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.  

Love is a better teacher than duty. 

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishmonent and the other by acts of love. Power based  love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted. 

We must make it clear that revolution does not merely mean an upheaval or a sanguinary strife. Revolution necessarily implies the programme of systematic reconstruction of society on new and better adapted basis after complete destruction of the existing state of affairs (i.e., regime).

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.