What acts as a far more effective circumstance for generating compassion and what, in fact, rouses us from our comfortable meditation seat is actually seeing or hearing others - encountering others directly, not just conceptually in our imagination.

God exists or God does not exist. Leave it for us. Your task is to learn how to live peacefully.

A spoon cannot taste of the food it carries. Likewise, a foolish man cannot understand the wise man´s wisdom even if he associates with a sage.

To me there is no difference whether president, beggar, or king.

By far the single greatest danger facing humankind - in fact, all living beings on our planet - is the threat of nuclear destruction.

If you have only education and knowledge and a lack of the other side, then you may not be a happy person, but a person of mental unrest, of frustration. Not only that, but if you combine these two, your whole life will be a constructive and happy life. And certainly you can make immense benefit for society and the betterment of humanity. That is one of my fundamental beliefs: that a good heart, a warm heart, a compassionate heart, is still teachable.

World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.