The more contact we have with one another and the more we come to understand each other's values, the greater will be our mutual respect.

The ultimate source of happiness is not money and power, but warm-heartedness

True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love and compassion, and by eliminating anger, selfishness and greed.

If we try to secure the well-being of others, we will, at the same time, create the conditions for our own.

Black Power If the motive is good, and there are no other possibilities, then seen most deeply it [violence] is nonviolence, because its aim is to help others.

An eye for an eye....we are all blind

In some respects I have been the most unlucky because I have spent more time living as a refugee outside my country than I have spent in Tibet. On the other hand, it has been very rewarding for me to live in a democracy and to learn about the world in a way that we Tibetans had never known before.