True enlightenment is nothing but the nature of one's own self being fully realized.

Our business is to be happy.

The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one's life.

Peace starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share peace with neighboring communities, and so on. When we feel love and kindness towards others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.

It is a wonderful thing if one can use one's place of work as a place of spiritual practice as well.

Instead of harboring fear and suspicion we need to think of other people not as ‘them’ but ‘us’.

His Holiness Pope John Paul II was a determined and deeply spiritual minded person for whom I had great respect and admiration. His experience in Poland, then a communist country, and my own difficulties with communists, gave us an immediate common ground