A positive future cannot emerge from the mind of anger of despair

Our greatest duty and our main responsibility is to help others. But please, if you can't help them, would you please not hurt them.

It is important not to allow ourselves to be put off by the magnitude of others' suffering. The misery of millions is not a cause for pity. Rather it is a cause for compassion.

The most important benefit of patience consists in the way it acts as a powerful antidote to the affliction of anger.

Many people and companies only have one goal: money, money, and more money. Greed is ok when you let others profit from it, but greed for oneself is bad, it makes you ill.

Americans are interested because they are open-minded. They have an education system that teaches them to find out for themselves why things are the way they are. Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.