"A great rock is not disturbed by..." - Quote by Dalai Lama

“After I handed over all my authority, I feel now our struggle [for Tibet ] become much, much safer. And me personally, the day I officially handed over, that night, very unusual sound. I am quite free now.”

“If you develop a pure and sincere motivation, if you are motivated by a wish to help on the basis of kindness, compassion, and respect, then you can carry on any kind of work, in any field, and function more effectively.”

“I only escaped from Tibet because I feared my people would resort to desperate violence if the Chinese took me as their prisoner.”

“He who takes nature for his guide, is not easily beaten out of his argument”

“And before my Soul took me to task I was hard of hearing; I heard only tumult and uproar. But now I am all ears listening to the silence and its choirs singing the hymns of time, intoning the praises of the firmament, revealing the secrets of the invisible.”

“Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.”

“Imagination is a sort of faint perception.”

“Since the time of the ancient Greeks, we have always felt that there was a close relationship between a strong, vital mind and physical fitness.”

“Don't use your mind for a filing cabinet. Use your mind to work out problems and find answers; file away good ideas in your journal.”