I think the worst part of growing up is the realization that there will come battles in this life that you simply can't win, but ones you have to fight regardless, fighting with the knowledge you cannot change the ending, just the how and when.

The prize reaffirms our conviction that with truth, courage and determination as our weapons, Tibet will be liberated. Our struggle must remain non-violent and free of hatred.

I'm not stubborn. My way is just better.

There are but two kinds of men that will walk this earth, those that serve a human, and those that will serve humanity.

Yet in the end wealth proved treacherous, for in life it was a blanket of warmth, yet when the coldness of death approached its warmth disappeared as if it never existed, for it was bound to this world and not of the next where it was of little use.

It is a fool who seeks to build a monument for the greatest of his ancestors, for all he had to do was witness his own reflection, he was their greatest memory, a living one. He bore their likeness in a way no statue or painting ever would, carried their legacy within his own veins. His every action in good faith would testify to their magnificence that no historical account could quantify.