To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else.

It is a question of our own peace and mental stability.

Try to remain truthful. The power of truth never declines. Force and violence may be effective in the short term, but in the long run it's truth that prevails.

I think, that in the twenty-second century, there will be more female reincarnations at female institutions. Then there'll be competition between male lama institutions and female lama institutions. It'll be a positive sort of competition.

Spirituality actually must be above politics. Or some other sort of business.

If a problem can be solved it will be. If it can not be solved there is no use worrying about it.

True enlightenment is nothing but the nature of one's own self being fully realized.