When I talk to a few thousand people, I just feel I am talking to an old friend. Like that. I never felt some kind of distance, so therefore, I feel one source of happiness. In that kind of atmosphere, my experience seems some benefit to some people.

Now is the time when your action is practice.

If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy.

May I examine my mind in all actions and as soon as a negative state occurs, since it endangers myself and others, may I firmly face and avert it.

The most important thing is transforming our minds, for a new way of thinking, a new outlook: we should strive to develop a new inner world.

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.

I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend [with dignity, with honor].