Dalai Lama

"I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion."

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

"It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come."

"Logically, harmony must come from the heart... Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together."

"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."

"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."

"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible."

"Chinese people themselves, they really want change."

"Computers make me totally blank out."

"Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties."

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

"I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console."

"I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted."

"If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it."

"If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it's not religion, but you can train through education."

"In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision."

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

"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive."

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

"My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding."

"My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness."

"Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day."

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

"Sleep is the best meditation."

"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."

"The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk."

"The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good."

"The purpose of our lives is to be happy."

"There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness."

"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness."

"Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering."

"We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection."

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

"When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others."

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

"Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion."

"Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences."