All good qualities must be sown and cultivated. We can’t expect to change overnight from an ordinary person into one with high realizations.

When I meet people from other cultures I know that they too want happiness and do not want suffering, this allows me to see them as brothers and sisters.

I believe that at every level of society the key to a happier world is the growth of compassion. We do not need to become religious, nor do we need to believe in an ideology. All that is necessary is for each of us to develop our good human qualities.

Historically, the East was more concerned with understanding the mind and the West was more involved in understanding matter.

I totally disagree with the view that the Tibet struggle will die, and there will be no hope for Tibet, after the Dalai Lama passes away.

I am just one human being.

According to Buddhist psychology most of our troubles stem from attachment to things that we mistakenly see as permanent.