Africans require, want, to franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

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

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.