In a free country, America, or India, and Japan, and many places, democracy country, free country, but still within the sort of rule of law, some injustice, some sort of problems, some discrimination, and also some sort of scandals or the corruptions. These things, you see, they are always in my mind, I think many people agree, lack of moral principle.

Even without a religion, we can become a good human being.

You are so anxious about the future that you do not enjoy the present. You therefore do not live in the present or the future. You live as if you are never going to die, and then die having never really lived.

Time passes unhindered. When we make mistakes, we cannot turn the clock back and try again. All we can do is use the present well.

Meditation may also be thought of as a technique by which we diminish the force of old thought habits and develop new ones.

The essence of compassion is a desire to alleviate the suffering of others and to promote their well-being

When you hate someone intensely, 80% of what you think is delusion.