Peace is not just the mere absence of violence or disturbance. It's when there is a possibility of conflict, but you deliberately avoid violence and adopt methods to solve the problem through peaceful means. That is real peace.

We can only transform humanity and create a happier more compassionate world through education.

I hold the view that death is rather like changing one's clothes when they are torn and old. It is not an end in itself. Yet death is unpredictable-you do not know when and howT it will take place.

I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.

In our own case, we don't consider the loss of a monastery or a monument the end of our entire way of life. If one monastery is destroyed, sometimes it happens.

To conquer oneself is a greater victory than to conquer thousands in a battle.

Unlike physical progress, which is subject to natural restrictions, the qualities of the mind can be developed limitlessly.