If you focus only on yourself and neglect others, you will lose; but you will gain if you value others as much as you cherish yourself.

Do something that scares you every day. You have nothing to lose but fear itself.

The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one's life.

The simple recognition that everyone else wants to be happy and not to suffer, just as I do, serves as a constant reminder against selfishness and partiality. It reminds us there is little to be gained from being kind and generous while hoping to win something in return. Actions motivated by a desire to earn a good name for ourselves are still selfish, even if they appear to be acts of kindness.

It is our collective and individual responsibility to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live.

Compassion is of little value if it just remains an idea. It must motivate how we respond to others and be reflective in all our thoughts and actions

In some cases, in order to protect global issues some sacrifice for national interest is worth it in the long run. Global warming, these things, they suffer everybody.