"We have global communication and yet confrontation..." - Quote by Dalai Lama

“I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes. After all, man can live without meat.”

“We need a little more compassion, and if we cannot have it, then no politician or even a magician can save the planet.”

“To my mind, there are two things that, in life, you can do about death. Either you can choose to ignore it, in which case you may have some success in making the idea of it go away for a limited period of time, or you can confront the prospect of your own death and try to analyze it and, in so doing, try to minimize some of the inevitable suffering that it causes. Neither way can you actually overcome it.”

“The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose.”

“Of course, I love you,' the flower said to him. 'If you were not aware of it, it was my fault.”

“I have in my life never been guilty of saying things I did not mean - my nature is to go straight to the heart and if often I fail in doing so for the time being, I know that Truth ultimately makes itself heard and felt, as it has often done in my experience.”

“The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.”

“We are more anxious to speak than to be heard.”

“I believe that if we stop talking at one another and start talking with one another, we can get a lot done.”