We need to learn how to want what we have NOT to have what we want in order to get steady and stable Happiness

We have never declared war on China. We have only asked them to leave us in peace, to let us have our natural freedom.

Even a small act of compassion grants meaning and purpose to our lives.

I think the person who has had more experience of hardships can stand more firmly in the face of problems than the person who has never experienced suffering. From this angle then, some suffering can be a good lesson for life.

Our world is increasingly interdependent, but I wonder if we truly understand that our interdependent human community has to be compassionate; compassionate in our choice of goals, compassionate in our means of cooperation and our pursuit of these goals.

For change to happen in any community, the initiative must come from the individual.

We have made a great effort to maintain all levels of Buddhist education; it has helped us have a kind of renaissance, really.