We need to employ a secular approach to ethics, secular in the Indian sense of respecting all religious traditions and even the views of non-believers in an unbiased way. Secular ethics rooted in scientific findings, common experience and common sense can easily be introduced into the secular education system. If we can do that there is a real prospect of making this 21st century an era of peace and compassion.

Passion is what gives sense to our life.

Even secular humanism has great spiritual resources; it is almost like a religion to me.

The key point is kindness. With kindness one will have inner peace. Through inner peace, world peace can one day be a reality.

Spirit is a land of high white peaks and glittering jewel-like lakes and flowers. Life is sparse and sounds travel great distances.

I one individual human being. One of the seven billion human being. I believe each of us, our future depends on the rest of humanity.

It's not enough to be compassionate. You must act.