The most important benefit of patience consists in the way it acts as a powerful antidote to the affliction of anger.

Real change in society must start from individual initiative.

Whatever the intellectual quality of the education given our children, it is vital that it include elements of love and compassion, for nothing guarantees that knowledge alone will be truly useful to human beings.

Different people describe me in a different ways. Some describe me as the living Buddha. Nonsense. Some describe me as 'God-king.' Nonsense. Some consider me as a demon or a wolf in Buddhist robes. That also, I think nonsense.

A heart full of love and compassion is the main source of inner strength, willpower, happiness, and mental tranquility

The immediate source of a mind... must be a mind which existed before the conception took place; the mind must have a continuity from a previous mind. This we hold to prove the existence of a past life.

Tolerance is an important virtue of bodhisattvas .