Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger.

The mind must be developed by you alone. There is no way for others to do the work and for you to reap the results. Reading someone else's blueprint of mental progress will not transfer its realizations to you. You have to develop them yourself.

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

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

To defy the authority of empirical evidence is to disqualify oneself as someone worthy of critical engagement in a dialogue.

We need a little more compassion, and if we cannot have it, then no politician or even a magician can save the planet.

An open heart is an open mind.