Certain beliefs must accompany every action: One should act without selfishness, cultivate compassion for all living things, and develop respect for others.

One can be deceived by three types of laziness: of indolence, which is the wish to procrastinate; the laziness of inferiority, which is doubting your capabilities; and the laziness that is attachment to negative actions, or putting great effort into non-virtue.

A lot of problems we are facing, essentially, man made problem. Own creation. Not due to lack of intelligence.

You need self-confidence and determination: feeling depressed and losing hope will never really help to correct any situation.

The death penalty fulfills a preventive function, but it is also very clearly a form of revenge. It is an especially severe form of punishment because it is so final. The human life is ended and the executed person is deprived of the opportunity to change, to restore the harm done or compensate for it.

While people are often content to criticize and blame others for what goes wrong, surely we should at least attempt to put forward constructive ideas. One thing is for certain: given human beings' love of truth, justice, peace, and freedom, creating a better, more compassionate world is a genuine possibility. The potential is there.

Attachment constrains our vision so that we are not able to see things from a wider perspective.