Our enemies provide us with a precious opportunity to practice patience and love. We should have gratitude toward them.

The most compassionate form of giving is done with no thought or expectation of reward, and grounded in genuine concern for others.

True enlightenment is nothing but the nature of one's own self being fully realized.

An open heart is an open mind.

A generous heart and wholesome actions lead to greater peace.

We need to employ a secular approach to ethics, secular in the Indian sense of respecting all religious traditions and even the views of non-believers in an unbiased way. Secular ethics rooted in scientific findings, common experience and common sense can easily be introduced into the secular education system. If we can do that there is a real prospect of making this 21st century an era of peace and compassion.

The creation of a more peaceful and happier society has to begin from the level of the individual, and from there it can expand to one's family, to one's neighborhood, to one's community and so on.