As a Buddhist, I was trained to be tolerant of everything except intolerance. I was brought up not only to develop the spirit of tolerance but also to cherish moral and spiritual qualities such as modesty, humility, compassion, and, most important, to attain a certain degree of emotional equilibrium.

Understanding, love and tolerance are the highest forms of interest on out small and interdependent planet.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

The single most important impediment to global institutions is the concept of "my country, right or wrong".

I don't like to be disturbed at home; I tell the cable office not to call me before 6:30 AM, unless there's a war.

The law of love and compassion for all living creatures is again a doctrine to which we are all too ready to pay slip service. However, if it is to become a reality, it requires a process of education, a veritable mental renaissance. Once it has become a reality, national as well as international problems will fall into perspectives and become easier to solve. Wars and conflicts, too, will then become a thing of the past, because wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

The war we have to wage today has only one goal, and that is to make the world safe for diversity.