Your education tends to develop the brain while it neglects the heart, so you have a longing for teachings that develop and strengthen the good heart.

On every level of human life, compassion is the key thing.

Good human qualities-honesty, sincerity, a good heart-cannot be bought with money, nor can they be produced my machines, but only by the mind itself. We can call this the inner light, or God's blessing, or human qualitity. This is the essence of mankind.

It is a wonderful thing if one can use one's place of work as a place of spiritual practice as well.

Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free. True peace with oneself and with the world around us can only be achieved through the development of mental peace.

Media people should have long noses like an elephant to smell out politicians, mayors, prime ministers and businessmen. We need to know the reality, the good and the bad, not just the appearance.

The proper way to create friends is to have a warm heart, not simply money or power. The friend of power and the friend of money are something different.