In most cases, my visits to the West are for promotion of human values and religious harmony.

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

The purpose of our lives is to be happy-Dalai Lama

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live.

Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.

Into every life may come tragedy and triumph. Our goal is to meet both equally with serenity and radiant acquiescence. Yet even from the storm clouds of tragedy, rainbows can appear.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.

If you asked me what is the basis of all my work, it's the feeling there's something basically wrong with human beings.

If there were a rehab for curiosity; I'd be in it.

A conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before.

Prose and poetry are as different as food and drink.

The only sin I think a commander in chief can make is exaggerating successes and not understanding the challenges.

If there is some aspect of creation you find you do not enjoy, bless it and simply change it. Choose again. Call forth a new reality. Think a new thought. Say a new word. Do a new thing.

Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!