This precious life is our opportunity. We are not the millions and millions of other things that are not human.

All of us are playing roles, and there's nothing wrong with playing roles because we have to live in this world - the problem is only when we believe in those roles.

If you're born in the higher realms, then it's too pleasant, and you don't have any incentive to practice. If you're born in the lower realms, you don't have any opportunity to practice.

Some males are intelligent, some are dumb. Some females are intelligent, some are dumb. We're all human beings, no one is superior.

Even if one isn't a committed Buddhist, it just helps us become better human beings.

The Buddha himself said, "I still use conceptual thinking, but I'm not formed by it." And that's the Buddha.

The thing to do in this lifetime is to create more merit.