“Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.”

“If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.”

“The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.”

“There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.”

“Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.”

“There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.”