When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing.

If there is a remedy or a cure, a solution to a problem or difficulty, why worry?

Changing your attitude has a curative effect... Maybe you can go directly to a change of mind, a change of attitude.

There is a dilemma, to reconcile three time scales: in the short term, the economy; in the middle range, global well-being generally; and, in the long range, the environment.

You get [something] in your body that is the suffering or the problem, and then you [add] a second one, which is worry. In both cases, [it is] pointless.

The Dalai Lama has been extremely interested in science since his childhood.

Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity; it is a state of being, a profound emotional balance struck by a subtle understanding of how the mind functions.