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

Love is wanting others to be happy.

...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.

I want to say, without hesitation, the purpose of our life is happiness.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

I'm sure all of us agree that we need to overcome violence, but we first need to examine whether it has any value. From a strictly practical perspective, on certain occasions violence appears to be useful. We can solve a problem quickly by force. But this success is often at the expense of the rights and welfare of others. Although one problem has been solved, the seed of another has been planted.

Buddha was speaking about reality. Reality may be one, in its deepest essence, but Buddha also stated that all propositions about reality are only contingent. Reality is devoid of any intrinsic identity that can be captured by any one single proposition - that is what Buddha meant by "voidness." Therefore, Buddhism strongly discourages blind faith and fanaticism.