Courage and compassion are two sides of the same coin. Compassion without courage is not genuine. You may have a compassionate thought or impulse, but if you don’t do or say anything, it’s not real compassion.

Envying another's beauty will diminish your own. But when you praise beauty in others your own beauty deepens.

Humanity's collective mission in the cosmos lies in the practice of compassion.

Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?

The differences between people need not act as barriers that wound, harm and drive us apart. Rather, these very differences among cultures and civilizations should be valued as manifestations of the richness of our shared creativity.

The place where you are now is vital. The path toward victory opens from where you stand.

With love and patience, nothing is impossible.