Sometimes, whether a desire is excessive or negative depends on the circumstances or society in which you live in.

I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.

The jealousy that arises from another's achievement is overcome by developing an awareness of and admiration for one's own and other's achievement.

Afflictive emotions - our jealousy, anger, hatred, fear - can be put to an end. When you realize that these emotions are only temporary, that they always pass on like clouds in the sky, you also realize they can ultimately be abandoned.

Without changing one's self, without peace in one's self, world peace is not possible.

Love and compassion ... are the ultimate source of human happiness, and the need for them lies at the very core of our being.

One Mongolian leader became a very, very brutal dictator and eventually became a murderer. Previously, he was a monk, and then he became a revolutionary. Under the influence of his new ideology, he actually killed his own teacher. Pol Pot's family background was Buddhist. Whether he himself was a Buddhist at a young age, I don't know. Even Chairman Mao's family background was Buddhist. So one day, if the Dalai Lama becomes a mass murderer, he will become the most deadly of mass murderers.