We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense. I am just one human being.

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.

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

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

I totally disagree with the view that the Tibet struggle will die, and there will be no hope for Tibet, after the Dalai Lama passes away.

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

Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.

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

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.

Genius is never understood in its own time.

It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool.

That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

Mothers are the necessity of invention.

If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?

Reality continues to ruin my life.

I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

Opposition is true friendship.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.

Exuberance is beauty.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.

What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!

Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.

I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.

Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

One thought fills immensity.

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.