We have to make a sustained effort, again and again, to cultivate the positive aspects within us.

Without mutual tolerance emerging as the foundation, terrible situations like those of Tibet and Sri Lanka, Bosnia and Rwanda, can never be effectively improved.

Encountering sufferings will definitely contribute to the elevation of your spiritual practice, provided you are able to transform calamity and misfortune into the path.

As free human beings we can use our unique intelligence to try to understand ourselves and our world. But if we are prevented from using our creative potential, we are deprived of one of the basic characteristics of a human being.

Don't compare me with Jesus. He is a great master, a great master.

It's unrealistic to think that the future of humanity can be achieved only on the basis of prayer; what we need is to take action.

The proper way to create friends is to have a warm heart, not simply money or power. The friend of power and the friend of money are something different.