One of the expressions of Western over-reliance on technology can be seen in the lack of patience in industrial society. When you deal with technology, everything happens at the touch of a button. This conditions you to become so impatient that when you have an emotional or personal crisis, you don't allow time for the solution to take effect. This leads to all sorts of rash responses, like quarrels, fights and so on.

Compassion seems to be the greatest power.

Children are our greatest untapped resource.

The fact that there is always a positive side to life is the one thing that gives me a lot of happiness.

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

There is often a big disparity between the way in which we perceive things and the way things really are.

In some places, there's the concept of one religion, one truth. In the Muslim world, there's the notion of Allah. The Western, multireligious modern society is some kind of a challenge to this. These, I feel, are the main causes [for terrorism], and, when combined with lots of anger and frustration, cause a huge amount of hate.