It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging. 

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

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.

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time. 

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history. l 

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible. 

The martyrdom of Lalaji has shaken the Congressmen. Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru is planning something solid to be presented for adoption in the coming session of the Congress, but I am not sure if he would be able to do something.

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and become the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.