In today's highly interdependent world, individuals and nations can no longer resolve many of their problems by themselves. We need one another. It is our collective and individual responsibility to protect and nurture the global family, to support its weaker members, and to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live.

Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.

Looking at various means of developing compassion, I think empathy is an important factor: the ability to appreciate others' suffering.

Children are our greatest untapped resource.

Sectarian feelings and criticism of other teachings or other sects is very bad, poisonous, and should be avoided.

It's best not to get too excited or too depressed by the ups and downs of life.

You have to start giving first and expect absolutely nothing.