Although you may not always be able to avoid difficult situations,you can modify the extent to which you can suffer by how you choose to respond to the situation.

When you talk you are only repeating something you already know. But, if you listen you may learn something new.

For a better, happier, more stable and civilized future, each of us must develop a sincere, warm-hearted feeling of brotherhood and sisterhood.

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

We need cooperation based on trust and self-confidence to create an open, compassionate, harmonious society.

Irrespective of whether we are believers or agnostics, whether we believe in God or karma, moral ethics is a code which everyone is able to pursue.

The real test of compassion is not what we say in abstract discussions but how we conduct ourselves in daily life.