Dalai Lama

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

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

Disagreement is something normal.

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.

Out of 6 billion humans, the troublemakers are just a handful.

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

Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.

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

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

I believe each human being has the potential to change, to transform one’s own attitude, no matter how difficult the situation.

Learn and obey the rules very well so you will know how to break them properly.

Historically, the East was more concerned with understanding the mind and the West was more involved in understanding matter.

Man surprised me most about humanity.Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health.And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.

Anger is the ultimate destroyer of your own peace of mind

An eye for an eye....we are all blind

We may now have reached a point where this gap in our make-up has become unsustainable; partly because what in the past would have counted as material plenty has become the norm for the majority in much of the world; and partly because the slow retreat of religion that coincided with the spread of a capitalist economy has left a gaping hole in millions of people's lives. (Geoff Mulgan)

What we do and think in our own lives, then, becomes of extreme importance as it effects everything we're connected to.

Despite all philosophical differences, all major world religions have the same potential to create good human beings.