Soul is at home in the deep, shaded valleys. Heavy torpid flowers saturated with black grow there. The rivers flow like warm syrup. They empty into huge oceans of soul.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart... Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

Through training there is knowledge. You can produce compassion, love, forgiveness. you can change yourself.

Rulers come and go. It's the people who are the real rulers of the country.

I don't want to be a prisoner in a palace, living in such a constricted way - too tight!

Just as we take for granted the need to acquire proficiency in the basic academic subjects, I am hopeful that a time will come when we can take it for granted that children will learn, as part of the curriculum, the indispensability of inner values: love, compassion, justice, and forgiveness.