The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

Once you have a genuine sense of concern for others, there’s no room for cheating, bullying or exploitation.

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

Material development alone does not yield genuine inner peace.

From that viewpoint, America, free country, democratic country, so more opportunity. Still is more sort of Alive. This is my feeling.

Just as we take for granted the need to acquire proficiency in the basic academic subjects, I am hopeful that a time will come when we can take it for granted that children will learn, as part of the curriculum, the indispensability of inner values: love, compassion, justice, and forgiveness.

There are five billion human beings and in a certain way I think we need five billion different religions.