If your heart has peace, nothing can disturb you.

If we don't understand phenomena, we are more likely to do things to harm ourselves and others.

The very purpose of our life is to seek happiness.

His Holiness Pope John Paul II was a determined and deeply spiritual minded person for whom I had great respect and admiration. His experience in Poland, then a communist country, and my own difficulties with communists, gave us an immediate common ground

Compassion is the radicalism of our time.

When I talk to a few thousand people, I just feel I am talking to an old friend. Like that. I never felt some kind of distance, so therefore, I feel one source of happiness. In that kind of atmosphere, my experience seems some benefit to some people.

I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether.