My stomach sank. JP had come so close. His immigrant parents had sacrificed so much.

Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.

I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater.

...And in freedom, most people find sin.

So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

A taste so profound and complex that it can't even be compared to other tastes, only to emotions. Cheesy waffles, I was thinking, tastes like love without the fear of love's dissolution.

My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.

I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

Living is deeper than just life

I make small mistakes every day. But major mistakes? It doesn't seem so. I've examined my service to the Tibetan people and to humanity, and I've done as much as I can in my life.

I don't think anything has been set in stone yet.

Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered.

I've always thought the law ought to put on spectacles, it has mighty poor eyesight once in a while.

Sometimes I can be tactful and sometimes not. It all depends on the mood I'm in.

Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree.

Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.

Even under the best of circumstances, the road back from war is difficult.