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.

A positive future cannot emerge from the mind of anger of despair

My earnest request is that you practice love and kindness whether you believe in a religion or not

People often expect the other person to respond first in a positive way, instead of taking the initiative to create that possibility. I feel that's wrong; it can act as a barrier that just promotes a feeling of isolation from others. To overcome feelings of isolation and loneliness, your underlying attitude makes a tremendous difference - approaching others with the thought of compassion in your mind is the best way.

We need an approach to ethics which makes no recourse to religion and can be equally acceptable to those with faith and those without.

Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come.

World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion.