When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.

Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world.

If suffering were an unavoidable part of our existence, we should try to alleviate it as far as possible in practical, earthly ways.

European and American companies companies do create jobs for some people but what they're mainly going to do is make an already wealthy elite wealthier, and increase its greed and strong desire to hang on to power. So immediately and in the long run, these companies - harm the democratic process a great deal.

Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.

There is a special charm to journeys undertaken before daybreak in hot lands: the air is soft and cool and the coming of dawn reveals a landscape fresh from the night dew.

It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear.