If I had not been a monk, I would have become an engineer.

The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness.

There can be no peace as long as there is grinding poverty, social injustice, inequality, oppression, environmental degradation, and as long as the weak and small continue to be trodden by the mighty and powerful.

Out of 6 billion humans, the troublemakers are just a handful.

Whether we like it or not, we have all been born into this world as part of one great human family. Rich or poor, educated or uneducated, belonging to one nation or another, to one religion or another, adhering to this ideology or that, ultimately each of is just a human being like everyone else. We all desire happiness and do not want suffering.

Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and look back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.

When there is too much stress or worry, look within.