If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sle... - Dalai Lama XIV

"Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger. Instead of getting angry nurture a deep caring and respect for troublemakers because by creating such trying circumstances they provide us with invaluable opportunities to practice tolerance and patience."

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

"Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality."

"Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures."

"The topic of compassion is not at all religious business; it is important to know it is human business, it is a question of human survival."