You must consider yourself extremely fortunate if you don’t have major health or legal issues in your life.

My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese people is very essential.

Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

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.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Perceptions are often misplaced.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.