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

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

There is...a tendency to think of the spiritual life as primarily introspective, divorced from the concerns of everyday life....Faith that does not translate into actions is no faith at all.

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

The ultimate source of a happy life is warm-heartedness. This means extending to others the kind of concern we have for ourselves. On a simple level we find that if we have a compassionate heart we naturally have more friends. And scientists today are discovering that while anger and hatred eat into our immune system, warm-heartedness and compassion are good for our health.

The enemy is a very good teacher.

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt.