Dalai Lama

I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.

China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

Computers make me totally blank out.

Chinese people themselves, they really want change.

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

Sleep is the best meditation.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.