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

I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend [with dignity, with honor].

To my mind, there are two things that, in life, you can do about death. Either you can choose to ignore it, in which case you may have some success in making the idea of it go away for a limited period of time, or you can confront the prospect of your own death and try to analyze it and, in so doing, try to minimize some of the inevitable suffering that it causes. Neither way can you actually overcome it.

If you wonder what you were doing in the past, look at your body; to know what will happen to you in the future, look at your mind.

Every morning when I wake up, I dedicate myself to helping others to find peace of mind. Then, when I meet people, I think of them as long term friends; I don't regard others as strangers.

Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.

Helping others is not limited to providing food, shelter, and so forth, but includes relieving the basic causes of suffering and providing the basic causes of happiness.