There are many different kinds of power. True power comes from serving and helping others. Such behavior makes people respect you. They are willing to listen to your views and advice, and they support you. The energy of many people is thus channeled through one person. This kind of power is positive and authentic.

To foster inner awareness, introspection, and reasoning is more efficient than meditation and prayer.

All religions are essentially the same in their goal of developing a good human heart so that we may become better human beings.

The training of the mind is an art. If this can be considered art, one's life is art.

When we develop a right attitude of compassion and gratitude, we take a giant step towards solving our personal and international problems

Don't try to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist; use it to be a better whatever-you-al ready-are.

We all need basic human values rooted in trust and affection.