From a certain point of view our real enemy, the true troublemaker, is inside.

Differences in religious beliefs, politics, social status, and position are all secondary. When we look at someone with compassion, we are able to see beyond these secondary differences and connect to the primary essence that binds all humans together as one.

The time has come to educate people, to cease all quarrels in the name of religion, culture, countries, different political or economic systems. Fighting is useless. Suicide.

For those who may not find happiness to exercise religious faith, it's okay to remain a radical atheist; it's absolutely an individual right, but the important thing is with a compassionate heart - then no problem.

If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change.

The most important benefit of patience consists in the way it acts as a powerful antidote to the affliction of anger.

We must realize that it is best to focus on our oneness, to re emphasize what is the same about each of us rather than dwell on what is different.