Responsibility - moral responsibilities, responsibilities regarding society - these are things that come from the heart.

If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.

We need an approach to ethics which makes no recourse to religion and can be equally acceptable to those with faith and those without.

If we adopt a self-centered approach to life, by which we attempt to use others for our own self interest, we might be able to gain temporary benefits, but in the long run we will not succeed in achieving even our personal happiness, and hope for the next life is out of the question.

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

I became the Dalai Lama not on a volunteer basis.

Unfortunate events though potentially a source of anger and despair have equal potential to be a source of spiritual growth. Whether or not this is the outcome depends on your response.