H.H. the Dalai Lama and Robert Thurman in New York, May 2009

. . . I always am telling our supporters, and also those people who have a genuine interest about Tibetan culture; since you are supporting or you are showing interest, or you are showing solidarity with a certain culture, which I mentioned, [a] culture of compassion, culture of nonviolence-so since you yourself are showing a keen interest about that, so in your own home, in your own daily life, pay a little more attention about the concept of nonviolence. When you have some disagreement with your wife, or with your husband, think nonviolence. And little, little problems here and there, or with your neighbor, think more of compassion and respect others as just another human being. So build the Tibetan cultural heritage in which you have keen interest, and that cultural heritage, build in your own area, in your own family. That, I think, I feel, is the way to contribute, make a contribution to a better society, happier family.   — H.H. the Dalai Lama