Women have the capacity to lead us to a more peaceful world with compassion, affection, and kindness.

Happiness cannot come from hatred or anger. Nobody can say, 'Today I am happy because this morning I was angry.' On the contrary, people feel uneasy and sad and say, 'Today I am not very happy, because I lost my temper this morning.'

When our mind is calm, we’re better able to find peace of mind and live a joyful life.

Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences will always be there. Peace means solving these differences through peaceful means; through dialogue, education, knowledge; and through humane ways.

There is nothing I can't live without. I learned this attitude when I was a child.

I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether.

We may now have reached a point where this gap in our make-up has become unsustainable; partly because what in the past would have counted as material plenty has become the norm for the majority in much of the world; and partly because the slow retreat of religion that coincided with the spread of a capitalist economy has left a gaping hole in millions of people's lives. (Geoff Mulgan)