To foster inner awareness, introspection, and reasoning is more efficient than meditation and prayer.

As far as mental development is concerned, we should never be complacent. We can develop our minds infinitely - there is no limitation.

We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.

Some people say that the West has a cruel history. These people also may see the achievements of Western countries - in terms of the economy, education, health, and social achievements - as a result of exploitation of poorer countries, including Arab countries. Western nations get rich by using resources such as Arab oil. Meanwhile, the countries supplying them raw materials remain poor. Due to such injustices, jealousies are created.

In the interests of everyone the artist had a responsibility to use his medium well. In the Tibetan culture, most of the paintings are of deities or Buddhas, and they try to send a message of the value of the spiritual.

Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself. It is wrong to expect some final satisfaction to come from money or from a computer.

Mutual respect is the foundation of genuine harmony.