Don't use Buddhism to become a Buddhist. Use Buddhism to become better at whatever else in your life you are doing already.

The most important thing is to have a sense of responsibility, commitment, and concern for each of our fellow human beings.

World peace begins with inner peace.

Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.

Peace and the survival of life on earth as we know it are threatened by human activities which lack a commitment to humanitarian values. Destruction of nature and nature's resources result from ignorance, greed and lack of respect for the earth's living things.

Human use, population, and technology have reached that certain stage where mother Earth no longer accepts our presence with silence.

We may now have reached a point where this gap in our make-up has become unsustainable; partly because what in the past would have counted as material plenty has become the norm for the majority in much of the world; and partly because the slow retreat of religion that coincided with the spread of a capitalist economy has left a gaping hole in millions of people's lives. (Geoff Mulgan)