I always tell my Western friends that it is best to keep your own tradition. Changing religion is not easy and sometimes causes confusion. You must value your tradition and honor your own religion.

Today, as we wish each other a Happy New Year, let us determine to be more sincere, compassionate, warm-hearted human beings, trying to make our world a more equal place. That way we'll actually make it a happy year.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

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

The highest happiness is when one reaches the stage of liberation, at which there is no more suffering.

Awareness of death is the very bedrock of the entire path. Until you have developed this awareness, all other practices are obstructed.