Education is the way to achieve far-reaching results, it is the proper way to promote compassion and tolerance in society.

Children are our greatest untapped resource.

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.

Like the lotus which thrives in mud, the potential for realization grows in the rich soil of everyday life

To seek solitude like a wild animal. That is my only ambition.

If we can manage to refrain from harming others in our everyday actions and words, we can start to give more serious attention to actively doing good, and this can be a source of great joy and inner confidence. We can benefit others through our actions by being warm and generous toward them, by being charitable, and by helping those in need.

In twenty years' time I'll be eighty-three, just an old man with a stick moving like a sloth bear. While I'm alive, I am fully committed to autonomy, and I am the person who can persuade the Tibetan people to accept it.