A great work of art is one that truly moves and inspires you. You yourself must be moved. Don't look at art with others' eyes. Don't listen to music with others' ears. You must react to art with your own feelings, your own heart and mind.

It is precisely when we have suffered defeat that we can determine to win and open the path to future victory.

Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.

When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.

When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.

The idea of interdependence is central to Buddhism, which holds that all things come into being through the mutual interactions of various causes and conditions.

A person's true nature is revealed at times of the greatest adversity.