Your motivation should be sincere and your life should be of benefit to some people. That is the main thing. Don't care after my death.

Whatever the intellectual quality of the education given our children, it is vital that it include elements of love and compassion, for nothing guarantees that knowledge alone will be truly useful to human beings.

Responsibility - moral responsibilities, responsibilities regarding society - these are things that come from the heart.

You use force, you create fear. Fear destroys trust. Trust is the basis of harmony. The hardliner believes harmony and unity can be brought by force. That's totally unscientific, totally wrong.

Overcoming negative tendencies and enhancing positive potential are the very essence of the spiritual path.

I am confident that the next century will be better than this one.

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.