Try to improve. Don't expect too much, but don't feel discouraged either; keep up your enthusiasm; you will make progress.

To the extent that our experience of suffering reminds us of what everyone else also endures, it serves as a powerful inspiration to practice compassion and avoid causing others pain. And to the extent that suffering awakens our empathy and causes us to connect with others, it serves as the basis of compassion and love.

Wherever I go meeting the public... spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing.

When we talk about global crisis, or a crisis of humanity, we cannot blame a few politicians, a few fanatics, or a few troublemakers. The whole of humanity has a responsibility because it is our business, human business. I call this a sense of universal responsibility. That is a crucial point.

The foundation of the Buddha's teachings lies in compassion, and the reason for practicing the teachings is to wipe out the persistence of ego, the number-one enemy of compassion.

The most important benefit of patience consists in the way it acts as a powerful antidote to the affliction of anger.

Compassion and love give meaning to our activities and makes them constructive.