Love and kindness are the very basis of society. If we lose these feelings, society will face tremendous difficulties; the survival of humanity will be endangered.

For those who may not find happiness to exercise religious faith, it's okay to remain a radical atheist; it's absolutely an individual right, but the important thing is with a compassionate heart - then no problem.

I think technology really increased human ability, but technology cannot produce compassion.

There must be a way of promoting human values without involving religion, based on common sense, experience and recent scientific findings.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

I pray for all of us, oppressor and friend, that together we succeed in building a better world through human understanding and love, and that in doing so we may reduce the pain and suffering of all sentient beings.

Spirituality actually must be above politics. Or some other sort of business.