Children are our greatest untapped resource.

There is no way to escape death, it is just like trying to escape by four great mountains touching sky. There is no escape from these four mountains of birth, old age, sickness and death.

Death and dying provide a meeting-point between the Tibetan Buddhist and modern scientific traditions. I believe both have a great deal to contribute to each other on the level of understanding and of practical benefit.

His Holiness Pope John Paul II was a determined and deeply spiritual minded person for whom I had great respect and admiration. His experience in Poland, then a communist country, and my own difficulties with communists, gave us an immediate common ground

Happiness that depends mainly on physical pleasure is unstable; one day it's there, the next day it may not be.

Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.

If you make your best effort to be kinder, nurture compassion, make the world a better place, then you can say 'At least I've done my best.