Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.

If you do not give right attention to the one you love, it is a kind of killing. When you are in the car together, if you are lost in your thoughts, assuming you already know everything about her, she will slowly die.

Often, we feel that we need a leader outside of ourselves -a Buddha, a Gandhi, or a Martin Luther King, Jr.- to show the way. But we have the Buddha inside of us. We have Gandhi and King inside of us as well. We are interconnected. We don't need to wait for some other person to be the change we want to see in the world

If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Every one of us needs a home. The world needs a home. There are so many young people who are homeless. They may have a building to live in, but they are homeless in their hearts. That is why the most important practice of our time is to give each person a home.

I don't have to hate any person because I can always start anew, I can always reconcile.