The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

Peace must first be developed within an individual. And I believe that love, compassion, and altruism are the fundamental basis for peace. Once these qualities are developed within an individual, he or she is then able to create an atmosphere of peace and harmony. This atmosphere can be expanded and extended from the individual to his family, from the family to the community and eventually to the whole world.

What we do and think in our own lives, then, becomes of extreme importance as it effects everything we're connected to.

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

The way to change others' minds is with affection, and not anger.

Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.

Let us try to recognize the precious nature of each day.