To educate people for peace, we can use words or we can speak with our lives.

The sangha is a community where there should be harmony and peace and understanding. That is something created by our daily life together. If love is there in the community, if we've been nourished by the harmony in the community, then we will never move away from love.

The first thing I learned was that even if you have a lot of money and power and fame, you can still suffer very deeply.

The terrorists, they have the wrong perception. They believe that the other group is trying to destroy them as a religion, as a civilization. So they want to abolish us, to kill us before we can kill them. And the antiterrorist may think very much the same way - that these are terrorists and they are trying to eliminate us, so we have to eliminate them first. Both sides are motivated by fear, by anger, and by wrong perception.

You are like fireworks. You go out into your children, your friends, your society, and the whole world.

If you really know how to live, what better way to start the day than with a smile?

Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.