The essence of Buddhism is if you can, help others. If not, then at least refrain from hurting others.

If you can do something about a situation, why worry? And if you can't do something about a situation, why worry?

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

If you want change, create the causes.

Every human action, whether it has become positive or negative, must depend on motivation.

There is a true feminist movement in Buddhism that relates to the goddess Tārā. Following her cultivation of bodhicitta, the bodhisattva's motivation, she looked upon the situation of those striving towards full awakening and she felt that there were too few people who attained Buddhahood as women. So she vowed, 'I have developed bodhicitta as a woman. For all my lifetimes along the path I vow to be born as a woman, and in my final lifetime when I attain Buddhahood, then, too, I will be a woman.'

Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.