Our most valuable teachers are our enemies.While our friends can help us in many ways, only our enemies can provide us with the challenge we need to develop tolerance, patience, and compassionthree virtues essential for building character, developing peace of mind, and bringing us true happiness.

In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

The problems we face today, violent conflicts, destruction of nature, poverty, hunger, and so on, are human-created problems which can be resolved through human effort, understanding and the development of a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood. We need to cultivate a universal responsibility for one another and the planet we share.

Most of our problems are related to the mind, so we have to work to reduce our destructive emotions.

The Laws of Reasoning consist of the ground, the path, and the result. ...Suffering is in the mind. How we perceive happiness determines our suffering or not.

All I can do is engage with complete sincerity. Then whatever happens, there is no regret.

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