If the Dalai Lama joins one party, then that makes it hard for the system to work.
The Dalai Lama says don't pray for peace, don't wait for peace, don't talk about peace - do it right now.
Maybe, just maybe, I would like to become a real spiritual teacher, a working lama!
I'm human here, people. I'm not the Dalai Lama. But I'm trying.
Dali Lama said, 'when you open the heart of the person with humor, you can tell him the most truth. But if you tell him truth without humor, the heart closes.'
I would say that by virtue of transforming politics, [Dalai Lama] is in fact easily underestimated.
Tibetan Buddhism had an enormous impact on me.
The Dalai Lama would say that meditation is something that can help everyone. But he's aware that it can be misused or things can go wrong.
I saw the Doctor as a kind of lama, one of those long-lived old boys out in Tibet who might be anything up to eight hundred years old but only look seventy-five.
One thing I learned from his holiness the Dali Lama is the importance of humor.
The Dalai Lama should not be partisan either, should remain above.
If I prayed as much as I pluck, I'd be the Dalai Lama.
I believe that Willy Nelson is the hillbilly Dalai Lama.
To be seen only in public on stated times, like an eastern Lama would be ... offensive.
The Dalai Lama has been extremely interested in science since his childhood.