"Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us."

"The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best."

"No man fails who does his best."

"The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson."

"It is a timeless truth that true authority is measured not by subjugation, but by the empowerment of others — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us."

"Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed."

"If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense."