There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith.

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst. 

If you are being trolled, you are sticking out your neck for some good cause.

Books are indispensable. You can move from hard copies to soft copies. But that’s about it.

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

I became the Dalai Lama not on a voluntary basis.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been forced to fulfill themselves.

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time. 

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

Fear is a double-edged weapon: it can force you to do something or prevent you from doing something.

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.