I often tease young people about their concern for how they look; more important is inner beauty - compassion, affection and respect.

For change to happen in any community, the initiative must come from the individual.

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.

Values are related to our emotions, just as we practice physical hygiene to preserve our physical health, we need to observe emotional hygiene to preserve a healthy mind and attitudes.

It is not enough simply to wish that love and compassion should increase in us. We need to make a sustained effort, again and again, to cultivate the positive aspects within us - and the key here is constant familiarity. The nature of human thoughts and emotions is such that the more you engage in them, the more you consciously develop them, the more powerful they become.

The ultimate source of happiness is not money and power, but warm-heartedness

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