The Buddhists think that, because we've all had infinite previous lives, we've all been each other's relatives. Therefore all of you, in the Buddhist view, in some previous life ... have been my mother - for which I do apologize for the trouble I caused you.

That love, in the sense of wishing their happiness, will cause your actions to be effective in relation to that person.

I am daily making myself what I am.

Buddhism is all about science. If science is the systematic pursuit of the accurate knowledge of reality, then science is Buddhism, Buddhism is science.

Nonviolence against humans cannot take firm hold in society as long as brutality and violence are practiced toward other animals.

More than whether you live or die, it's how you are living or dying that is important.

In the practice of exchanging self & other, paradoxes abound.