I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes. After all, man can live without meat.

We need cooperation based on trust and self-confidence to create an open, compassionate, harmonious society.

Historically, the East was more concerned with understanding the mind and the West was more involved in understanding matter.

Internal peace is an essential first step to achieving peace in the world. How do you cultivate it? It's very simple. In the first place by realizing clearly that all mankind is one, that human beings in every country are members of one and the same family.

My message is the practice of compassion, love and kindness.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

Spiritual practice . . . involves, on the one hand, acting out of concern for others' well-being. On the other, it entails transforming ourselves so that we become more readily disposed to do so.