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

To condemn someone to death is to surrender; it proves that you failed. You are not able to change him, to change her; you have to kill him or her. You surrender. ... You only demonstrate your lack of capacity, your helplessness. This is failure.

The buddha called suffering a holy truth, because our suffering has the capacity of showing us the path to liberation. Embrace your suffering and let it reveal to you the way to peace.

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

Each breath we take, each step we make, each smile we realize, is a positive contribution to peace... a necessary step in the direction of peace for the world.

Our walking is not a means to an end. We walk for the sake of walking.

To reconcile conflicting parties, we must have the ability to understand the suffering of both sides.