If we try to secure the well-being of others, we will, at the same time, create the conditions for our own.

I feel that compassionate thought is the most precious thing there is. It is something that only we human beings can develop. And if we have a good heart, a warm heart, warm feelings, we will be happy and satisfied ourselves, and our friends will experience a friendly and peaceful atmosphere as well. This can be experienced community to community, country to country, continent to continent.

Pain can change you, but that doesn't mean it has to be a bad change. Take that pain and turn it into wisdom.

Have no discrepancy between what you say, what you are and what you do.

Black Power If the motive is good, and there are no other possibilities, then seen most deeply it [violence] is nonviolence, because its aim is to help others.

Children are our greatest untapped resource.

What is my religion? Simple. Kindness.