World economies are always so tenuous and we are subject to so many losses in life, but a compassionate attitude is something we can always carry with us.

The training of the mind is an art. If this can be considered art, one's life is art.

Ultimately, the decision to save the environment must come from the human heart. The key point is a call for a genuine sense of universal responsibility that is based on love, compassion and clear awareness.

As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there's no use.

You are the people who are shaping a better world. One of the secrets of inner peace is the practice of compassion.

Because past environmental destruction was the result of ignorance, we can easily forgive it. Today, we are better informed. Therefore, it's essential that we make an ethical examination of what we have inherited, what we are responsible for, and what we will pass on to coming generations. Ours is clearly a pivotal generation. We have global communication and yet confrontation is more common than dialogue.

We are the creators of our own happiness and suffering, for everything originates in the mind.