Each of you should feel that you have great potential and that, with self-confidence and a little more effort, change really is possible if you want it. If you feel that your present way of life is unpleasant or has some difficulties, then don't look at these negative things. See the positive side, the potential, and make an effort.

China can keep her troops on the external frontiers of Tibet, and Tibetans will pledge to accept the appropriate form of union with China.

Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace.

Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come.

To conquer oneself is a greater victory than to conquer thousands in a battle.

In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.

The immediate source of a mind... must be a mind which existed before the conception took place; the mind must have a continuity from a previous mind. This we hold to prove the existence of a past life.