Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.


Silence is sometimes the best answer.


Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.


There is a saying in Tibetan, ‘Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.’ No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that’s our real disaster.


Love is the absence of judgment.


Man surprised me most about humanity because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health and then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.


If scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those claims.


We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.


Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.


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


In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.


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


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


Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.