Kindness is the key to peace and harmony in family life.

The proper way to create friends is to have a warm heart, not simply money or power. The friend of power and the friend of money are something different.

One interesting thing about greed is that although the underlying motive is to seek satisfaction, the irony is that even after obtaining the object of your desire you are still not satisfied. The true antidote of greed is contentment.

Compassion is one of the principal things that make our lives meaningful. It is the source of all lasting happiness and joy.

I'm sure all of us agree that we need to overcome violence, but we first need to examine whether it has any value. From a strictly practical perspective, on certain occasions violence appears to be useful. We can solve a problem quickly by force. But this success is often at the expense of the rights and welfare of others. Although one problem has been solved, the seed of another has been planted.

Cats, dogs, and some I mean, birds, many species of mammals, they also have the sort of potential to show affection firstly because of the biological factor.

It is... very helpful to think of adversity not so much as a threat to our peace of mind but rather as the very means by which patience is attained.