China can keep her troops on the external frontiers of Tibet, and Tibetans will pledge to accept the appropriate form of union with China.

All good qualities must be sown and cultivated. We can’t expect to change overnight from an ordinary person into one with high realizations.

If you concern yourself mainly with others, the broader your thinking becomes, and life’s inevitable difficulties disturb you less.

Compassion instills a sense of calm, inner strength, and a deep confidence and satisfaction

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.

Because past environmental destruction was the result of ignorance, we can easily forgive it. Today, we are better informed. Therefore, it's essential that we make an ethical examination of what we have inherited, what we are responsible for, and what we will pass on to coming generations. Ours is clearly a pivotal generation. We have global communication and yet confrontation is more common than dialogue.