The message of love and compassion will travel far and wide if all who follow a spiritual path work together in harmony and mutual respect.

In twenty years' time I'll be eighty-three, just an old man with a stick moving like a sloth bear. While I'm alive, I am fully committed to autonomy, and I am the person who can persuade the Tibetan people to accept it.

A compassionate attitude helps you communicate more easily with your fellow human beings. As a result, you make more genuine friends and the atmosphere around you is more positive, which gives you greater inner strength. This inner strength helps you spontaneously concern yourself with others, instead of thinking only about yourself.

Artists have the responsibility to serve humanity give people hope.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

Happiness does not come about only due to external circumstances; it mainly derives from inner attitudes.

Mutual respect is the foundation of genuine harmony.