“My responsibility is to save Tibet, to protect its ancient cultural heritage.”
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“Before we can be cured, we must want to be cured.”
“Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat.”
“Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.... The real job of every moral teacher is to keep on bringing us back, time after time, to the old simple principles which we are all so anxious not to see; like bringing a horse back and back to the fence it has refused to jump or bringing a child back and back to the bit in its lesson that it wants to shirk.”
“Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.”
“Only through women’s full and equal participation in all areas of public and private life can we hope to achieve the sustainable, peaceful and just society promised in the United Nations Charter.”
“Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.”
“But it will depend on young people like you being open to new ideas and new possibilities. And it will require young people like you never to stereotype or assume the worst about other people.”
“If you go out and make some things happen, you will fill the world with hope.”
“One of the things I think the next president has to do is to stop fanning people's fears. If we spend all our time feeding the American people fear and conflict and division, then they become fearful and conflicted and divided. And if we feed them hope and we feed them reason and tolerance, then they will become tolerant and reasonable and hopeful.”
“...We can work it out. Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.”
“Before a dream is realized the soul of the world tests everything that was learned along the way.”
“When there's a disappointment, I don't know if it's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure.”
“Innovation opportunities do not come with the tempest but with the rustling of the breeze.”
“Our job in life is to make a positive difference, not prove we're right.”
“There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.”
“Neither human wisdom nor divine inspiration can confer upon man any greater blessing than this [live a life of happiness and harmony here on earth].”
“There are a lot of things going on that's causing a lot of these young kids to head in the wrong direction. I know a lot of kids that are cutting school. I try to give out a positive message, trying to get kids focused. If they don't then they're going to end up like every other hoodlum in the street.”
“Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.”
“Design is about creating spaces for people to enjoy and of course, creating moments where you elevate the spirit, but 'design for good' is figuring out a program that not only creates better spaces, but creates jobs, creates new industry and really kind of raises the conversation about how we rebuild.”