Initially, terrorism was a certain mixture of politics, economics, and religion. Now, it seems that terrorism is more individual and done to avenge personal grudges. So there are two kinds of terrorism.

If each of us can learn to relate to each other more out of compassion, with a sense of connection to each other and a deep recognition of our common humanity, and more important, to teach this to our children, I believe that this can go a long way in reducing many of the conflicts and problems that we see today.

The purpose of life is to be happy.

I have found a much greater appreciation of Buddhism because I couldn't take it for granted here in exile.

Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

We share the earth not only with our fellow human beings, but with all the other creatures.

There are five billion human beings and in a certain way I think we need five billion different religions.