You can develop the right attitude toward others if you have kindness, love and respect for them, and a clear realization of the oneness of all human beings.

There is no need to mention the great difference between the amount of satisfaction there is in just oneself being happy and the amount of satisfaction there is in an infinite number of people being happy.

We have never declared war on China. We have only asked them to leave us in peace, to let us have our natural freedom.

I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.

Sometimes people feel mind is merely the - in some animal, the energy or something from the brain. Now there are little sort of curiosities or I think doubt sometimes a sheer sort of mental attitude, some change in our brain. So these fields, now scientists are showing some interest.

To seek solitude like a wild animal. That is my only ambition.

Even within one person, yesterday and today, there are differences. We must look at a deeper level.