We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative,they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind.

I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.

There are two kinds of satisfaction or happiness: one mainly through mental peace; another physical comfort

When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

The only clear thing is that we humans are the only species with the power to destroy the earth as we know it. The birds have no such power, nor do the insects, nor does any mammal. Yet if we have the capacity to destroy the earth, so, too, do we have the capacity to protect it.

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.