If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.

The purpose of life is to be happy.

The practice of love can be expressed in one sentence: 'Do not harm others.'

There is often a big disparity between the way in which we perceive things and the way things really are.

One country ... one ideology, one system is not sufficient. It is helpful to have a variety of different approaches ... We can then make a joint effort to solve the problems of the whole of humankind.

A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.

It is my fundamental conviction that compassion - the natural capacity of the human heart to feel concern for and connection with another human being - constitutes a basic aspect of our nature shared by all human beings, as well as being the foundation of our happiness. All ethical teachings, whether religious or nonreligious, aim to nurture this innate and precious quality, to develop it and to perfect it.