Firstly, as a Buddhist monk, I hold that violence is not good. Secondly, I am a firm believer in the Gandian ethic of passive resistance. And thirdly, in reality, violence is not our strength.

Attention-yes! That's present! And present, you see, makes past and future.

The more you nurture a feeling of loving kindness, the happier and calmer you will be.

We know that to wage a nuclear war today, for example, would be a form of suicide; or that to pollute the air or the oceans in order to achieve some short-term benefit would be to destroy the very basis for our survival.

If you develop a pure and sincere motivation, if you are motivated by a wish to help on the basis of kindness, compassion, and respect, then you can carry on any kind of work, in any field, and function more effectively.

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

If you want to be wisely selfish, care for others