With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

Friends, genuine friends, have much more to do with whether we have a warm heart, not money or power.

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

Through awareness, you get a certain attitude. That's the way, you see, to achieve more peaceful, more compassion, more friendship through that way.

I have come to the conclusion that whether or not a person is a religious believer does not matter. Far more important is that they be a good human being.

I became the Dalai Lama not on a volunteer basis.

Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventure, and for hides and furs is a phenomena which is at once disgusting and distressing. There is no justification in indulging is such acts of brutality.