Not much more than a broke disgrace who's hooked on tonics, so excuse him if his poker face has puke on it.

Non sapevo controllare i sentimenti, li sentivo sempre troppo prepotenti e forti e mi ferivano.

The past is gone. It went by like dusk to dawn.

There were many words piled up inside my chest, stories waiting to be told. I wanted to hand all this knowledge to one other person, neither a master nor a disciple. I sought an equal - a companion.

I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table.

Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible.

As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there's no use.

As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.

Funny, when you finally faced reality, it was amazing how clearly you could see things.

Destiny waits in the hand of God, not in the hands of statesmen.

I do believe, in the long term, we will either get back to the principles that built America or we lose this country. And I'm an optimist.