Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

The basic condition of human life is happiness.

An ethical act is one which does not harm others' experience or expectation of happiness.

If scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those claims.

I call the light and high aspects of my being spirit and the dark and heavy aspects soul.

If a problem can be solved it will be. If it can not be solved there is no use worrying about it.

I don't want to convert people to Buddhism - all major religions, when understood properly, have the same potential for good.