If you want to be wisely selfish, care for others

Learn and obey the rules very well so you will know how to break them properly.

Suffering increases your inner strength. Also, the wishing for suffering makes the suffering disappear.

We have made a great effort to maintain all levels of Buddhist education; it has helped us have a kind of renaissance, really.

Determination, with an optimistic attitude is the key to success.

Right from the moment of our birth, we are under the care and kindness of our parents, and then later on in our life when we are oppressed by sickness and become old, we are again dependent on the kindness of others. Since at the beginning and end of our lives we are so dependent on other's kindness, how can it be in the middle that we would neglect kindness towards others?

Once we have a firm practice of compassion our state of mind becomes stronger which leads to inner peace, giving rise to self-confidence, which reduces fear. This makes for constructive members of the community. Self-centredness on the other hand leads to distance, suspicion, mistrust and loneliness, with unhappiness as the result.