Helping others is not limited to providing food, shelter, and so forth, but includes relieving the basic causes of suffering and providing the basic causes of happiness.

There is soul music, soul food, and soul love.

I pray for all of us, oppressor and friend, that together we succeed in building a better world through human understanding and love, and that in doing so we may reduce the pain and suffering of all sentient beings.

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

If we have a positive mental attitude, then even when surrounded by hostility, we shall not lack inner peace.

Happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors.

When, from the depths of your heart, you spontaneously wish all beings to find true, lasting happiness, this is great love.