If we have no inner peace, we deceive ourselves into thinking that comfort and prosperity will bring happiness.

We must cultivate a universal responsibility toward each other and extend it to the planet that we have to share

In the interests of everyone the artist had a responsibility to use his medium well. In the Tibetan culture, most of the paintings are of deities or Buddhas, and they try to send a message of the value of the spiritual.

The only "definitive truth" for Buddhism is the absolute negation of any one truth as the Definitive Truth.

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

Logically, harmony must come from the heart... Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come.