I request you to try to be warm-hearted. I ask this of you because these mental attitudes actually bring us happiness.

The greater the level of calmness of our mind, the greater our peace of mind, the greater our ability to enjoy a happy and joyful life.

Whatever the intellectual quality of the education given our children, it is vital that it include elements of love and compassion, for nothing guarantees that knowledge alone will be truly useful to human beings.

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

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

By far the single greatest danger facing humankind - in fact, all living beings on our planet - is the threat of nuclear destruction.

When I meet people from other cultures I know that they too want happiness and do not want suffering, this allows me to see them as brothers and sisters.