The challenge today is to convince people of the value of truth, honesty, compassion and a concern for others.

The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.

To me there is no difference whether president, beggar, or king.

If you wonder what you were doing in the past, look at your body; to know what will happen to you in the future, look at your mind.

Happiness comes through taming the mind; without taming the mind there is no way to be happy

More fundamental than religion is our basic human spirituality. We have a basic human disposition towards love, kindness and affection, irrespective of whether we have a religious framework or not. When we nurture this most basic human resource - when we set about cultivating those basic inner values which we all appreciate in others, then we start to live spiritually.

We must recognize that the suffering of one person or one nation is the suffering of humanity.