To seek solitude like a wild animal. That is my only ambition.

Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease.

Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'

Internal peace is an essential first step to achieving peace in the world. How do you cultivate it? It's very simple. In the first place by realizing clearly that all mankind is one, that human beings in every country are members of one and the same family.

Scientists are discovering that while anger and hatred eat into our immune system, warm-heartedness and compassion are good for our health.

We have to make a sustained effort, again and again, to cultivate the positive aspects within us.