I became the Dalai Lama not on a volunteer basis.

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.

Most people do not mind dying, as long as that does not happen today.

She faces him, trying to take a breath that's long and level, trying to pull all the slopping emotions back inside so he won't see them in her face.

Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.

The great white city of brotherhood, Washington.

We do very little re-writing in the office. We often take on people who show great promise and who we hope will develop into somebody important and someone good.

Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.

In her smile, Idris sees how little of the world he has known, even at thirty-five years of age, its savageness, its cruelty, its boundless brutality.

Remember it only takes giving love and good feelings a minimum of 51 percent of the tiem to reach the tipping point and change everything.

There is no explanation in the Big Bang theory for the seemingly fortuitous fact that the density of matter has just the right value for the evolution of a benign, life supporting universe.

Each movement reminds us that every moment invites a new opportunity for change.