Dalai Lama

I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I'm telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!

I have no trouble sleeping.

I feel exhausted if I teach too long.

In most cases, my visits to the West are for promotion of human values and religious harmony.

As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there's no use.

At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.

Some scientists believe climate change is the cause of unprecedented melting of the North Pole, and that effects these very uncertain weather patterns. I think we should listen to those scientists and experts.

If I had remained in Lhasa, even without the Chinese occupation, I would probably have carried the ceremonial role in some orthodox way.

Wherever I go meeting the public... spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing.

The Tibetan people will need to determine who the next reincarnation of the Dalai Lama is.

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 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.

Disagreement is something normal.

Computers make me totally blank out.

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.

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

The Dalai Lama is just a temporal leader of Tibet.

I became the Dalai Lama not on a volunteer basis.

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

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.