Every moment is a moment of happiness.

If you establish serenity and happiness inside yourself, you provide the world with a solid base of peace. If you do not give yourself peace, how can you share it with others? If you do not begin your peace work with yourself, where will you go to begin it?

One Buddha is not enough; we need to have many Buddhas.

The energy of compassion is very strong. We suffer. That is real. But we have learned not to get angry and not to allow ourselves to be carried by anger. We realize right away that that is fear. That is corruption.

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

In English we say 'we are' but it's proper to say 'we are becoming' because things are becoming.

I would not be happy if I had not become a monk.