Dalai Lama

I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.

Initially, my father opposed the idea of joining films and did not want me to move out, but now I'm closest to him and have his full support.

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.