Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you're always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?

— Dalai Lama

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.

— Dalai Lama

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

— Dalai Lama

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

— Dalai Lama

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.

— Dalai Lama

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

— Dalai Lama

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

— Dalai Lama

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.

— Dalai Lama

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.

— Dalai Lama

I think governments can't do much.

— Dalai Lama