We believe in self creation. That's why Buddhists believe in the Four Noble Truths.

At a personal level, as a Buddhist practitioner, I deliberately visualize and think about death in my daily practice. Death is not separated from our lives. Due to my research and thoughts about death, I have some guarantee and some conviction that it will be a positive experience.

His Holiness Pope John Paul II was a determined and deeply spiritual minded person for whom I had great respect and admiration. His experience in Poland, then a communist country, and my own difficulties with communists, gave us an immediate common ground

An open heart is an open mind.

It is our collective and individual responsibility to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live.

Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and look back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.

Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.