It's nice to have money, but the first thing I did with money was buy my father a snow-blower, because my job was to shovel snow, and I wasn't there to do it any more, so I was able to buy him a blower.

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.

People don't understand what happiness is, so they have an idea of what will make them happy, but it never does.

If you have any question in your mind, don't do it. If you go in thinking it's going to fix something that's wrong, don't do it.

Everyone seems to think they know what acting techniques are. Techniques just help you get to a certain place, but if the thing is happening just by itself you don't need those techniques.

There is a way of looking at an awful place from a certain angle that allows it to take on a beauty because it is what it is.

Mindfulness is a quality that's always there. It's an illusion that there's a meditation and post-meditation period, which I always find amusing, because you're either mindful or you're not.