"Ultimately, the human being is in the..." - Quote by Dalai Lama

“Computers make me totally blank out.”

“If the situation was such that there was only one learned lama or genuine practitioner alive, a person whose death would cause the whole of Tibet to lose all hope of keeping its Buddhist way of life, then it is conceivable that in order to protect that one person it might be justified for one or 10 enemies to be eliminated if there was no other way.”

“The person who received maximum affection from mother, that person also sort of cultivated the potential showing affection to others.”

“Only after Winter comes do we know that the pine and the cypress are the last to fade.”

“The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.”

“When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.”

“Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities his preeminence over them simply and solely in the number and in the fantastic and unnecessary character of his wants, physical, moral, aesthetic, and intellectual. Had his whole life not been a quest for the superfluous, he would never have established himself as inexpugnably as he has done in the necessary.”

“It is characteristic of the military mentality that non-human factors ... are held essential, while the human being, his desires and thoughts-in short, the psychological factors-are considered as unimportant and secondary.”

“There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.”