In my humble opinion, the Dalai Lama is one of the wisest people currently living on our planet.
Of course, religion is a very personal thing, and he's obviously a Buddhist so a lot of his views relate to that. I'm not saying that every other reigion is wrong, but I just think that so many of his words, principles views just make so much SENSE.
I have read several books about him and I love the concept of his thinking.