In order to lead a meaningful life, you need to cherish others, pay attention to human values and try to cultivate inner peace.

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.

When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.

Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.

Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.

This is the moment when something once more begins visibly to happen, something truly new and unique...something truly historical, in the sense that history again demands to be heard.

No great thing could ever be achieved without encouragement.

A nation can be mighty, when the citizens put away their political differences, work together for a common vision, a common goal and a common good.

I'm just excited I get to sing all the time. There's nothing but open ears of people wanting to listen.

I realized eventually that if I was really on top of what I was doing, I should be able to make photographs out of almost anything.

The one thing that I know government is good for is countervailing against monopoly. It's not great at that either, but it's the only force I know that is fairly reliable.

All the other covenants show God’s love and transmit God’s love, but it is only in the marital covenant that the love is so real and powerful that it communicates life.

We are not to be isolated but insulated, moving in the midst of evil but untouched by it.

We've moved from wisdom to knowledge, and now we're moving from knowledge to information, and that information is so partial – that we're creating incomplete human beings.

Wisdom is the health of the soul.