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

Spend some amount of time alone everyday.

We need to find secular ways to cultivate warm-heartedness. We need secular ways to educate ourselves about inner values. The source of a happy life is within us. Trouble makers in many parts of the world are often quite well educated, so it is not just education that we need. We need to pay attention to inner values.

The reality today is that we are all interdependent and have to co-exist on this small planet. Therefore, the only sensible and intelligent way of resolving differences and clashes of interests, whether between individuals or nations, is through dialogue.

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

Each individual has a universal responsibility to shape institutions to serve human needs.

Despite all philosophical differences, all major world religions have the same potential to create good human beings.