One can be deceived by three types of laziness: of indolence, which is the wish to procrastinate; the laziness of inferiority, which is doubting your capabilities; and the laziness that is attachment to negative actions, or putting great effort into non-virtue.

We need material development, but we need to understand that by itself it doesn't bring peace of mind.

Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

When you hate someone intensely, 80% of what you think is delusion.

If humanity is to survive, happiness and inner balance are crucial. Otherwise the lives of our children and their children are more likely to be unhappy, desperate and short. Material development certainly contributes to happiness - to some extent - and a comfortable way of life. But this is not sufficient. To achieve a deeper level of happiness we cannot neglect our inner development.

Be gentle with the earth.

Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue.