We then came to the Soviet Union. One day we were walking and carrying our banner and distributing a few leaflets in Russian to people, and we met two women on the road.

Human happiness, true prosperity and joyful living can only emerge from a life of elegant simplicity, embedded in the arts and crafts.

How much I can learn from a tree! The tree is my church, the tree is my temple, the tree is my mantra, the tree is my poem and my prayer.

It became extremely important that we go and see the four heads of the governments, and the message was delivered, with the tea packets, to all these heads.

Multinational corporations and a market economy have transformed human beings into instruments of making money. Human beings should be the end. And money should be the means to an end.

We need to develop a sense of sufficiency to be happy.

If we go on using the Earth uncaringly and without replenishing it, then we are just greedy consumers.