We all wish for world peace, but world peace will never be achieved unless we first establish peace within our own minds.

When the turbulence of distracting thoughts subside and our mind becomes still, a deep happiness and contentment naturally arises from within.

Love is the real nuclear bomb that destroys all our enemies, because when we love all living beings, we have no enemies.

Developing compassion and wisdom and helping those in need is the true meaning of life.

Everything we have and everything we enjoy, including our very life, is due to the kindness of others. In fact, every happiness there is in the world arises as a result of others' kindness.

All the happiness there is in the world arises from wishing others to be happy.

The moment we let go of our obsessive concern for our own welfare, our mind naturally relaxes and becomes lighter.

If everyone practiced cherishing others, many of the major problems of the world would be solved in a few years.

When we learn to accept difficult circumstances patiently, the real problem disappears.

We are all interconnected in a web of kindness from which it is impossible to separate ourself.

Only by creating peace within our own mind and helping others to do the same can we hope to achieve peace in this world.

Everyone is their own, though they are so alone. They all sit on their imagined thrones, made only of their own bones. Ego and pride make exquisite delusional cushions.

I make one request:love me.Not convenient loveor conditional love.Rather the kind of lovewhere eyes meet& souls greet.Where the depthis unfathomable.

I wake up every morning and I surprise myself. I wake up to a new me.

I've lived my life again just telling it to you.

Everything in science depends on what one calls an aperçu, on becoming aware of what is at the bottom of the phenomena. Such becoming aware is infinitely fertile.

I was the very first athlete in East Germany allowed to go professional.

Aren't most of you descended from pirates?

If one compares the sequence of amino acids that go to form the protein haemoglobin, it becomes apparent that humans and chimps are identical and do not differ in a single site.

Hold the newsreader's nose squarely, waiter, or friendly milk will countermand my trousers.

I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.