Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come.

I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend [with dignity, with honor].

I one individual human being. One of the seven billion human being. I believe each of us, our future depends on the rest of humanity.

The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all kinds.

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

Peace in the world depends on peace in the hearts of individuals; this depends on each of us practising ethics by disciplining our negative thoughts and emotions, and developing basic spiritual qualities.

Whether we like it or not, we have all been born into this world as part of one great human family. Rich or poor, educated or uneducated, belonging to one nation or another, to one religion or another, adhering to this ideology or that, ultimately each of is just a human being like everyone else. We all desire happiness and do not want suffering.