Try to improve. Don't expect too much, but don't feel discouraged either; keep up your enthusiasm; you will make progress.

Artists have the responsibility to serve humanity give people hope.

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

More often than not, anger is actually an indication of weakness rather than of strength.

Without mutual tolerance emerging as the foundation, terrible situations like those of Tibet and Sri Lanka, Bosnia and Rwanda, can never be effectively improved.

The compassion we feel normally is biased and mixed with attachment. Genuine compassion flows towards all living beings, particularly your enemies. If I try to develop compassion towards my enemy, it may not benefit him directly, he may not even be aware of it. But it will immediately benefit me by calming my mind. On the other hand, if I dwell on how awful everything is, I immediately lose my peace of mind.

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.