The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.

The proper way to create friends is to have a warm heart, not simply money or power. The friend of power and the friend of money are something different.

If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation

In the modern world, the interests of a particular community can no longer be considered to lie within the confines of its own boundaries.

When selflessness is seen in objects, the seed of cyclic existence is destroyed.

I request you to try to be warm-hearted. I ask this of you because these mental attitudes actually bring us happiness.