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.

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.

You see how I tryTo reach with wordsWhat matters mostAnd how I fail.

The style of life is a unity because it has grown out of the difficulties of early life and out of the striving for a goal.

When I was under house arrest, it was the BBC that spoke to me - I listened.

As long as you make an identity for yourself out of pain, you cannot be free of it.

Creativity arises out of the state of thoughtless presence in which you are much more awake than when you are engrossed in thinking.

I stand for what I stand on.

Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization.

We are fooles one to another.

Oh, to me not drinking is like being dead, almost. I sit here taking endless journeys down memory lane. It gets boring.

If ancient tales say true, nor wrong these holy men.