I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.

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

The purpose of our lives is to be happy-Dalai Lama

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live.

Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.

No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

Bad gains are true losses.

Oppression makes a wise man mad.

Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results.

The only way to ever truly get your confidence and swagger back, I've learned, is to fight for them.

From 1931 to 1937, I was a Fellow and Lecturer in Economics at Hertford College, Oxford.

The ill usage of every minute is a new record against us in heaven.

You don't win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.

To pray is to descend with the mind into the heart, and there to stand before the face of the Lord, ever-present, all seeing, within you.