Blessings don’t come from outside, but from within. Whatever blessings we receive are the result of our own efforts and positive actions.

Each of us must learn to work not just for one self, one's own family or one's nation, but for the benefit of all humankind. Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace.

Wealth is not necessarily a bad thing when it has been earned in an honest manner and neither other individuals nor the environment suffered for it.

Happiness is the highest form of health.

If I had not been a monk, I would have become an engineer.

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.

Today is the right day to love, believe, do, and mostly, live.