For a practitioner of love and compassion, an enemy is one of the most important teachers. Without an enemy you cannot practice tolerance, and without tolerance you cannot build a sound basis of compassion.

When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves.

Instead of harboring fear and suspicion we need to think of other people not as ‘them’ but ‘us’.

There is...a tendency to think of the spiritual life as primarily introspective, divorced from the concerns of everyday life....Faith that does not translate into actions is no faith at all.

More often than not, anger is actually an indication of weakness rather than of strength.

I am not promoting Buddhism. I am promoting human values.

True friends share genuine closeness and remain friends irrespective of fluctuating fortunes.