Artists have to show us what is not going well within the person and within the society, not try to cover it up.

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.

Working for peace in the future is to work for peace in the present moment.

To abandon the present in order to look for things in the future is to throw away the substance and hold onto the shadow.

As children, Siddhartha and Jesus both realized that life is filled with suffering. The Buddha became aware at an early age that suffering is pervasive. Jesus must have had the same kind of insight, because they both made every effort to offer a way out. We, too, must learn to live in ways that reduce the world's suffering.

Mother Earth is very talented.

When you learn how to suffer, you suffer much less.