If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

If we have fear and despair in us, we cannot remove the suffering in society.

Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your feelings need you, your perceptions need you. Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it. Go home and be there for all these things.

There is the mud, and there is the lotus that grows out of the mud. We need the mud in order to make the lotus.

I would not be happy if I could not become a monk. They call it the beginner's mind - the deep intention, the deepest desire that a person may have. And I can say that until this day, this beginner's mind is still alive in me.

Through your love for each other, through learning the art of making one person happy, you learn to express your love for the whole of humanity and all beings. Please help us develop the curriculum for the Institute for the Happiness of One Person. Don't wait until we open the school. You can begin practicing right away.

The roots of war are in the way we live our daily lives -- the way we develop our industries, build up our society, and consume goods.