When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore; he belongs to the world.

I know who I am. No one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe, and someone said I was a snake, I'd think, no, actually I'm a giraffe.

America has never paid any attention to other people, so it's absurd for Bush to say that it's all in the best interests of the Iraqi people.

The secret of my success is my hairspray.

There is nothing real about film. Nothing. Even the light particles that project the film can't be proven to exist. Nothing is there.

Maybe the Dalai Lama is the only person who is totally honest, and even with him, he's skillful not to hurt anybody. He's skillful.

To read your own mind is to look at your self and read your soul. Hatred becomes love and that is the path I am working on