We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future. 

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reached the mountaintop of our desires.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.

I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist has done that. Other lamas, I don't think they ever pay attention to modern science. Since my childhood, I have a keen interest.

Wherever I go meeting the public... spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing.

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility. 

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.

Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.

Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.

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

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

I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.

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

As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do - anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of - your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart... Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

The basic Buddhist stand on the question of equality between the genders is age-old. At the highest tantric levels, at the highest esoteric level, you must respect women: every woman.

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

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

Disagreement is something normal.

Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.