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

Moving towards better rather than moving away from bad is an attitude of embracing life rather than rejecting it.

There is competition, but it is used in a good way. It is positive to want to go first, provided the intention is to pave the way for others, make their path more easy, help them, or show the way. Competition is negative when we wish to defeat others, to bring them down in order to lift ourselves up.

I have been confronted with many difficulties throughout the course of my life, and my country is going through a critical period. But I laugh often, and my laughter is contagious. When people ask me how I find the strength to laugh now, I reply that I am a professional laugher.

Children are our greatest untapped resource.

One can overcome the forces of negative emotions, like anger and hatred, by cultivating their counter-forces, like love and compassion.

Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.