I think every human being, born from mother, and at least the next few years, you see, received immense affection from our mother. So the child's first experience in this lifetime at the beginning, I think that immense affection from other is in our blood. So therefore, the whole rest of life, other people show you smile, genuine sort of closeness feeling. You feel happy. Even animals also like that.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

In my childhood, I had a religious assistant who always told me, if you can really laugh with full abandonment, it's very good for your health.

If you concern yourself mainly with others, the broader your thinking becomes, and life’s inevitable difficulties disturb you less.

Learning to forgive is much more useful than merely picking up a stone and throwing it at the object of one's anger, the more so when the provocation is extreme. For it is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.

We need material development, but we need to understand that by itself it doesn't bring peace of mind.

The main cause of suffering is egoistic desire for one's own comfort and happiness.