"I try to treat whoever I meet..." - Quote by Dalai Lama

“It's not enough to be compassionate. You must act.”

“There is often a big disparity between the way in which we perceive things and the way things really are.”

“If you resort to violent methods because the other side has destroyed your monastery, for example, you then have lost not only your monastery, but also your special Buddhist practices of detachment, love, and compassion.”

“We can solve many problems in an appropriate way, without any difficulty, if we cultivate harmony, friendship and respect for one another.”

“Speak with contempt of none, from slave to king, The meanest Bee hath, and will use, a sting.”

“A gentleman may love like a lunatic, but not like a beast.”

“Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people--but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.”

“A noble person confers no such gift as his whole confidence: none so exalts the giver and the receiver; it produces the truest gratitude. Perhaps it is only essential to friendship that some vital trust should have been reposed by the one in the other. I feel addressed and probed even to the remotest parts of my being when one nobly shows, even in trivial things, an implicit faith in me.... A threat or a curse may be forgotten, but this mild trust translates me.”

“In friendship, as in love, we are often more happy from the things we are ignorant of than from those we are acquainted with.”