The essence of any religion is good heart. Sometimes I call love and compassion a universal religion. This is my religion.

Compassion, along with love, is the face of altruism.

Once a year go someplace you've never been.

We have always been a nation different from the Chinese. Long ago we fought wars with them.

Without religion, also there is a way, it could be this way, through education, through scientific findings, then you get conviction. Not necessarily really love other, but for their own interest they are showing love, compassion to other like that.

Your education tends to develop the brain while it neglects the heart, so you have a longing for teachings that develop and strengthen the good heart.

All religions are essentially the same in their goal of developing a good human heart so that we may become better human beings.