This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

I think technology really increased human ability, but technology cannot produce compassion.

If you shift your focus from oneself to others, and think more about others' well-being and welfare, it has an immediate liberating effect.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

Just as you have the instinctive natural desire to be happy and overcome suffering, so do all sentient beings; just as you have the right to fulfill this innate aspiration, so do all sentient beings. So on what exact grounds do you discriminate?

If I had not been a monk, I would have become an engineer.