Dalai Lama is very interested in learning from and sharing tips with people in other traditions, but he always stresses that we shouldn't underestimate the important differences between them.

Any school would gain, if the students began the day with meditation, cleared their heads and got themselves centered.

Movement is a fantastic privilege but it ultimately only has meaning if you have a home to go back to.

Home is not just the place where you happen to be born. Its the place where you become yourself.

Going nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.

It's impressive that a man [Dalai Lama], on the day after his Nobel Prize was announced, in October, 1989, said to me, "I really wonder if my efforts are enough?" Most of us, if we just won the Nobel Prize, would think this is vindication, or at last there's a chance for Tibet. He's the rare person who thinks, as a Buddha would, "I don't know if I've done enough, I don't know if I will do enough."

But it’s only by having some distance from the world that you can see it whole, and understand what you should be doing with it.