Awareness of death is the very bedrock of the entire path. Until you have developed this awareness, all other practices are obstructed.

True compassion is universal in scope. It is accompanied by a feeling of responsibility.

True change is within; leave the outside as it is.

A sense of concern for others gives our lives meaning; it is the root of all human happiness

Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself. It is wrong to expect some final satisfaction to come from money or from a computer.

Despite all philosophical differences, all major world religions have the same potential to create good human beings.

If scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those claims.