When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

Everybody loves to talk about calmness and peace, whether in a family, national, or international context, but without inner peace how can we make real peace? World peace through hatred and force is impossible.

The very purpose of meditation is to discipline the mind and reduce afflictive emotions.

Buddha himself taught different teachings to different people under different circumstances. For some people, there are beliefs based on a Creator. For others, no Creator. The only "definitive truth" for Buddhism is the absolute negation of any one truth as the Definitive Truth.

I have found that the greatest degree of inner peace comes from cultivating love and compassion.

It is not enough simply to wish that love and compassion should increase in us. We need to make a sustained effort, again and again, to cultivate the positive aspects within us - and the key here is constant familiarity. The nature of human thoughts and emotions is such that the more you engage in them, the more you consciously develop them, the more powerful they become.

Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.