Once your mind is calm and full of love, there is no room for hatred or fear. Others will trust you because of your open heart.

A genuine smile touches something fundamental in us: our natural appreciation of kindness.

We must live harmoniously with our neighbors.

All living beings have experience of pleasure and pain, and we are among them. What makes human beings different is that we have a powerful intelligence and a much greater ability to achieve happiness and avoid suffering. Real happiness and friendship come not from money or even knowledge, but from warm-heartednes s. Once we recognize this we will be more inclined to cultivate it.

If the mind is dominated by hatred, the best part of the brain, which is used to judge right and wrong, does not function properly.

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

In our concern for others, we worry less about ourselves. When we worry less about ourselves an experience of our own suffering is less intense. What does this tell us? Firstly, because our every action has a universal dimension, a potential impact on others' happiness, ethics are necessary as a means to ensure that we do not harm others. Secondly, it tells us that genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others' happiness.