The Dalai Lama has been extremely interested in science since his childhood.

Worries are pointless. If there's a solution, there's no need to worry. If no solution exists, there's no point to worry.

Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside.

To love oneself is to love life. It is essential to understand that we make ourselves happy in making others happy.

Happiness is a skill, emotional balance is a skill, compassion and altruism are skills, and like any skill they need to be developed. That's what education is about.

The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.

Let us live simply in the freshness of the present moment, in the clarity of pure awakened mind.

We deal with our mind from morning till evening, and it can be our best friend or our worst enemy.

We all have the ability to study the causes of suffering and gradually to free ourselves from them....it is not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage.

Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity, it is a state of being.

Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.

There is more to life than working for money.

[D]oing nothing meant leaving things exactly the way they were, and that was unacceptable.

Our only fate is to lie in the beds that we make.

Coach told me once, when I was too busy screwing around to pay attention that the only way he could get through to me, make me hear him was to spell everything out. I wanted you to hear me.

Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four.

I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.

I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.

People see themselves as 'succeeding' because they are individually exceptional -- they don't see that there is a mechanism that has made it possible for them.

-Who knows about this? -Just me, the police, the killer, and now you.

There is no such thing as an ugly woman.