Generosity is the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion and loving-kindness .

I have been confronted with many difficulties throughout the course of my life, and my country is going through a critical period. But I laugh often, and my laughter is contagious. When people ask me how I find the strength to laugh now, I reply that I am a professional laugher.

If you wish to heal your own sadness or anger, seek to heal the sadness or anger of another. Those others are waiting for you now. They are looking to you for guidance, for help, for courage, for strength, for understanding, and for assurance at this hour. Most of all, they are looking to you for love.

Compassion and love is the source of external and internal peace and is also the root of racial survival.

Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned.

Unlike an external enemy, the inner enemy cannot regroup and launch a comeback once it has been destroyed from within.

But when it comes to democratic political parties, I prefer that monks and nuns not join them - in order to ensure proper democratic practice.