The greatest problem all around the world today, whether in America, Japan, China, Russia, India or anywhere else in the world, is that people are not in peace. People want peace.

It is not the world that needs peace, it is people. When people in the world are at peace within, the world will be at peace.

We think a wise person is someone who solves problems. Truth is, a wise person is someone who avoids problems.

When you are introduced to the clarity inside of you, to the simplicity inside of you, to that beauty inside of you, the journey of life begins.

You should love one another and behave lovingly because when love comes, everything comes. You should speak to one another with love and humility. Love is the essence.

Peace is not a luxury. It's not an option. It is fundamental to the existence and well-being of a human being to have peace in their life.

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.

The world doesn't want you to know. They want you to believe. But there is a big difference between believing and knowing. Should you believe in yourself or should you know yourself?

Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult.

Practice peace, change your world.

I suggest you take a look at yourself. Not the concepts, not the ideas, not the goods, not the bads. But a timeless purity of existence. A witness to the beauty that is.

We are too scared to be real!

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.

...as an actor there's nothing better than a great moody moment to play with nothing to say. It's so much easier to do because you can really get inside your head.

There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.

We are all products of our time, vulnerable to history.

As an atheist, I believe that all life is unspeakably precious, because it’s only here for a brief moment, a flare against the dark, and then it’s gone forever.

People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.

Jesus said that when confronted with Caesar's coin, to render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's but unto God what is God's.

I want to hear people say, "Oh, he's matured. He's a grown up now".

What we do to others will come back to us.