I do not want to carry any public position.

Other human beings have a right to peace and happiness that is equal to our own; therefore we have a responsibility to help those in need.

Through money or power you cannot solve all problems. The problem in the human heart must be solved first.

If there's good, strong evidence from science that such and such is the case and this is contrary to Buddhism, then we will change.

To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else.

With the realization of ones own potential and self-confidence in ones ability, one can build a better world. According to my own experience, self-confidence is very important. That sort of confidence is not a blind one; it is an awareness of ones own potential. On that basis, human beings can transform themselves by increasing the good qualities and reducing the negative qualities.

To my mind, there are two things that, in life, you can do about death. Either you can choose to ignore it, in which case you may have some success in making the idea of it go away for a limited period of time, or you can confront the prospect of your own death and try to analyze it and, in so doing, try to minimize some of the inevitable suffering that it causes. Neither way can you actually overcome it.