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

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

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

People should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion. Even secular humanism has great spiritual resources; it is almost like a religion to me.

If you utilize obstacles properly, then they strengthen your courage, and they also give you more intelligence, more wisdom.

Since at the beginning and end of our lives we are so dependent on other's kindness, how can it be in ......the middle that we would neglect kindness towards others?

We have made a great effort to maintain all levels of Buddhist education; it has helped us have a kind of renaissance, really.