Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.

Human rights will be a powerful force for the transformation of reality when they are not simply understood as externally defined norms of behavior but are lived as the spontaneous manifestation of internalized values.

It is senseless to blame others or your environment for your miseries. Change begins from the moment you muster the courage to act. When you change, the environment will change. The power to change the world is found nowhere but within our own life.

True happiness means forging a strong spirit that is undefeated, no matter how trying our circumstances.

The heart is what is important." There is nothing more vulnerable, nothing more corruptible than the human mind; nor is there anything as powerful, steadfast and ennobling.

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

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.