Education is the way to achieve far-reaching results, it is the proper way to promote compassion and tolerance in society.

As far as ignorance is concerned, not just Buddhism, every religion recognizes it as the source of suffering.

Each of us in our own way can try to spread compassion into people's hearts. Western civilizations these days place great importance on filling the human brain with knowledge, but no one seems to care about filling the human heart with compassion. This is what the real role of religion is.

I always have the feeling that I'm just another human being.

Buddha was speaking about reality. Reality may be one, in its deepest essence, but Buddha also stated that all propositions about reality are only contingent. Reality is devoid of any intrinsic identity that can be captured by any one single proposition - that is what Buddha meant by "voidness." Therefore, Buddhism strongly discourages blind faith and fanaticism.

Meditation may also be thought of as a technique by which we diminish the force of old thought habits and develop new ones.

Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.