The key to genuine happiness is in our hands. To think this way is to discover the essential values of kindness, brotherly love and altruism. The more clearly we see the benefits of these values, the more we will seek to reject anything that opposes them; in this way we will be able to bring about inner transformation.

When you engage in fulfilling the needs of others, your own needs are fulfilled as a by-product.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

Giving up attachment to the world does not mean that you set yourself apart from it. Generating a desire for others to be happy increases your humanity. As you become less attached to the world, you become more humane. As the very purpose of spiritual practice is to help others, you must remain in society.

True friendship develops not as a result of money or power but on the basis of genuine human affection.

We have never declared war on China. We have only asked them to leave us in peace, to let us have our natural freedom.