You need self-confidence and determination: feeling depressed and losing hope will never really help to correct any situation.

In the past, the respect people had for religion meant that ethical practice was maintained through a majority following one religion or another. But this is no longer the case. We must therefore find some other way of establishing basic ethical principles.

I request you to try to be warm-hearted. I ask this of you because these mental attitudes actually bring us happiness.

Some feel that you lose your independence if you don't let your mind just wander where it wants to, if you try to control it. But that is not the case. If your mind is proceeding in the correct way, one already has the correct opinion. But if your mind is proceeding in an incorrect way, then it's necessary, definitely, to exercise control.

I think there's every reason this 21st century will be much happier.

Compassion is the radicalism of our time.

Rulers come and go. It's the people who are the real rulers of the country.