When we are using this term 'basic goodness,' we are talking about our inherent completeness.

People can be trained in certain principles, but then they actually have to apply them and try them out.

Running and meditation are very personal activities. Therefore they are lonely. This loneliness is one of their best qualities because it strengthens our incentive to motivate ourselves.

I hope you will attain enlightenment. I am here to tell you that you already have! But you don't know... The difference between the Buddha and us is the confidence in knowing that he was enlightened.

If you rise with a positive attitude - because everything is possible, everything is doable - if you have that level of confidence, you exude it. It actually inspires the people around you.

My books definitely are ambassadors, as you called them. They express what the vision is, what the purpose is.

If we are going to live in a society, there has to be an attitude where people really do care for others.