Compassion and love is the source of external and internal peace and is also the root of racial survival.

To foster inner awareness, introspection, and reasoning is more efficient than meditation and prayer.

Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger.

Buddha himself taught different teachings to different people under different circumstances. For some people, there are beliefs based on a Creator. For others, no Creator. The only "definitive truth" for Buddhism is the absolute negation of any one truth as the Definitive Truth.

If I say, "I am a monk." or "I am a Buddhist," these are, in comparison to my nature as a human being, temporary. To be human is basic.

There should be a spirit of dialogue. Whenever we see any disagreements, we must think how to solve them on the basis of recognition of oneness of the entire humanity. This is the modern reality.

Religion is like going out to dinner with friends. Everyone may order something different, but everyone can still sit at the same table.