I can't say I have control over my emotions; I don't know my mind. I'm lost like everyone else. I'm certainly not a leader.

All of our energy should be in sacrifice and services. Suffering, at least.

Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.

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.

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

[on editing of the films] There is always a question of time, and the director. I've worked with a lot of directors who don't mind my involvement. They appreciated it.

I think most of our religious institutions are pretty corrupt, so they're not reliable. I think the Christian religion that I was brought up with has very little to do with Christ, really, and more an institutions that have built up around the church.