Whether we like it or not, we have all been born into this world as part of one great human family. Rich or poor, educated or uneducated, belonging to one nation or another, to one religion or another, adhering to this ideology or that, ultimately each of is just a human being like everyone else. We all desire happiness and do not want suffering.

My overriding belief is that it is always possible for criminals to improve and that by its very finality the death penalty contradicts this.

A zero itself is nothing, but without a zero you cannot count anything; therefore, a zero is something, yet zero.

As far as ignorance is concerned, not just Buddhism, every religion recognizes it as the source of suffering.

We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one's own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.

The need for love lies at the very foundation of human existence.

Our attitude towards suffering becomes very important because it can affect how we cope with suffering when it arises.