Always engage yourself positively with situations.

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.

If you help others with sincere motivation and sincere concern, that will bring you more fortune, more friends, more smiles, and more success. If you forget about others' rights and neglect others' welfare, ultimately you will be very lonely.

Compassion naturally creates a positive atmosphere, and as a result you feel peaceful and content.

Even secular humanism has great spiritual resources; it is almost like a religion to me.

When a person is in a miserable situation, then, yes, it is difficult to develop genuine compassion toward others. That's why I find it difficult to say to poor people, "Please have compassion toward millionaires." That's not easy.

There is nothing that does not get easier through cultivation. The buddhas of the past started out as ordinary beings. They were not buddhas in the beginning. The path to buddhahood is traversed only through gradually developing more and more courage and DETERMINATION -then it is attained.