Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. 

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good. 

I became the Dalai Lama not on a voluntary basis.

Morality is contraband in war. 

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. 

I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I'm telling people this, IS myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!

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.