Haze is the veil that filters the beauty of nature.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

World belongs to humanity, not the leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity. 

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

We welcome the scrutiny of the world - because what you see in America is a country that has steadily worked to address our problems and make our union more perfect.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

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.

Just because crime is not established in the court of law doesn’t mean a murderer is innocent.

Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.

And no, we don't know where it will lead. You just know there's something much bigger than any of us here.