One of the basic points is kindness. With kindness, with love and compassion, with his feeling that is the essence of brotherhood, sisterhood, one will have inner peace. This compassionate feeling is the basis of inner peace.

Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger.

We discover that all human beings are just like us, so we are able to relate to them more easily. That generates a spirit of friendship in which there is less need to hide what we feel or what we are doing.

If you utilize obstacles properly, then they strengthen your courage, and they also give you more intelligence, more wisdom.

You are the people who are shaping a better world. One of the secrets of inner peace is the practice of compassion.

Compassion is the radicalism of our time.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.