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.

Faith is to fear nothing, to stand unswayed, the power to surmount any obstacle.

Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.

Every war, when viewed from the undistorted perspective of life’s sanctity, is a “civil war” waged by humanity against itself.

Everything begins with the resolve to take the first step. From that action, wisdom arises and change begins. Without action, nothing changes.

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

All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.