With genuine love and compassion, another person's appearance or behavior has no affect on your attitude.

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.

The purpose of our life needs to be positive. We weren't born with the purpose of causing trouble, harming others. For our life to be of value, I think we must develop basic good human qualities - warmth, kindness, compassion. Then our life becomes meaningful and more peaceful - happier.

Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects.

Fear, hatred, and suspicion narrow your mind - compassion opens it.

Wherever I go meeting the public... spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing.

Reality is devoid of any intrinsic identity that can be captured by any one single proposition - that is what Buddha meant by "voidness."