The need for love lies at the very foundation of human existence.

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

If you can do something about a situation, why worry? And if you can't do something about a situation, why worry?

Some feel that you lose your independence if you don't let your mind just wander where it wants to, if you try to control it. But that is not the case. If your mind is proceeding in the correct way, one already has the correct opinion. But if your mind is proceeding in an incorrect way, then it's necessary, definitely, to exercise control.

The three types of misery are the misery of suffering, the misery of change, and pervasive misery.

I believe that the basic nature of human beings is gentle and compassionate. It is therefore in our own interest to encourage that nature, to make it live within us, to leave room for it to develop. If on the contrary we use violence, it is as if we voluntarily obstruct the positive side of human nature and prevent its evolution.

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.