The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

If scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those claims.

To be extremely self-centred, only interested in your own satisfaction, always brings negative consequences in the long run.

Too strong a media emphasis on death and violence can lead to despair.

After I handed over all my authority, I feel now our struggle [for Tibet ] become much, much safer. And me personally, the day I officially handed over, that night, very unusual sound. I am quite free now.

China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

As you breathe in, cherish yourself. As you breathe out, cherish all Beings.