Happiness Doesn't Always Come From A Pursuit.

I Became The Dalai Lama Not On A Volunteer Basis.

The Mind Must Be Developed By You Alone. There Is No Way For Others To Do The Work And For You To Reap The Results. Reading Someone Else's Blueprint Of Mental Progress Will Not Transfer Its Realizations To You. You Have To Develop Them Yourself.

If I Were To Die Today, I Would Have Some Concern For Tibet. But I Know That I Have Personally Done As Much As I Can To Use My Existence For Others. So I Have No Regret.

In This Century We Have Made Remarkable Material Progress, But Basically We Are The Same As We Were Thousands Of Years Ago. Our Spiritual Needs Are Still Very Great.

Compassion Is Something We Can Count On. Even If We Face Economic Problems And Our Fortunes Decline, We Can Still Share Our Compassion With Our Fellow Human Beings. National And Global Economies Are Subject To Many Ups And Downs, But Through Them All We Can Retain A Compassionate Attitude That Will Carry Us Through.