Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.

I often tease young people about their concern for how they look; more important is inner beauty - compassion, affection and respect.

The creatures that inhabit this earth-be they human beings or animals-are here to contribute, each in its own particular way, to the beauty and prosperity of the world.

Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue.

Passion is what gives sense to our life.

I have been confronted with many difficulties throughout the course of my life, and my country is going through a critical period. But I laugh often, and my laughter is contagious. When people ask me how I find the strength to laugh now, I reply that I am a professional laugher.

In my mind of course natural disaster like tsunami, and these things, also I think indirectly may relate to human behavior. But then major sort of problems actually they're due to a lack of moral principle.