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

Whether or not we follow any particular spiritual tradition, the benefits of love and kindness are obvious to anyone.

The most important thing is transforming our minds, for a new way of thinking, a new outlook: we should strive to develop a new inner world.

From the scientific view, the theory of karma may be a metaphysical assumption -- but it is no more so than the assumption that all of life is material and originated out of pure chance

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.

We can hardly call a beggar an obstacle to generosity.

I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend [with dignity, with honor].