I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.

On every level of human life, compassion is the key thing.

By deceiving one another through false assumptions and misrepresentations there has been, in reality, a great lapse and delay in achieving the real goals.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

If someone remains in a peaceful and tranquil state of mind, external surroundings can cause them only a limited disturbance.

The truly good gaze upon everything with love and understanding.

In twenty years' time I'll be eighty-three, just an old man with a stick moving like a sloth bear. While I'm alive, I am fully committed to autonomy, and I am the person who can persuade the Tibetan people to accept it.