I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

At a fundamental level, as human beings, we are all the same; each one of us aspires to happiness and each one of us does not wish to suffer. This is why, whenever I have the opportunity, I try to draw people's attention to what as members of the human family we have in common and the deeply interconnected nature of our existence and welfare.

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

On occasions when u feel most hopeless, u must take powerful effort. We must persist in face of failure.

A truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively or hurt you.

I became the Dalai Lama not on a volunteer basis.

Genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others happiness.