A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals the secret of some hidden treasure.

Refraining from harm, not out of fear, but out of concern for others, their well-being and out of respect is non-violence.

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.

True enlightenment is nothing but the nature of one's own self being fully realized.

Once a year go someplace you've never been.

Don't become a Buddhist. The world doesn't need Buddhist. Do practice Compassion. The world needs more compassion.

A female Dalai Lama must be very attractive, otherwise not much use.