Inner values like friendship, trust, honesty and compassion are much more reliable than money - they always bring happiness and strength.

A sense of contentment is a key factor for attaining happiness

Consider that not only do negative thoughts and emotions destroy our experience of peace, they also undermine our health.

We can change society, change humanity by changing ourselves as individuals. By cultivating inner values, we can change our own lives and those of our families. This is how we can create a more peaceful world.

I think every human being, born from mother, and at least the next few years, you see, received immense affection from our mother. So the child's first experience in this lifetime at the beginning, I think that immense affection from other is in our blood. So therefore, the whole rest of life, other people show you smile, genuine sort of closeness feeling. You feel happy. Even animals also like that.

I never dreamt, in my dream, I'm Dalai Lama.

... Our individual well-being is intimately connected both with that of all others and with the environment within which we live.... Our every action, our every deed, word, and thought, no matter how slight or inconsequential it may seem, has an implication not only for ourselves, but for all others, too.