No argument, no reasoning, no blame, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.

Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

I would not look upon anger as something foreign to me that I have to fight... I have to deal with my anger with care, with love, with tenderness, with nonviolence.

Understanding and love aren't two separate things, they're just one.

The most basic precept of all is to be aware of what we do, what we are, each minute . Every other precept will follow from that.

Meditation is to be aware of what is going on: in your body, in your feelings, in your mind, and in the world.

If I don't understand you, I may be angry at you, all the time. We are not capable of understanding each other, and that is the main source of human suffering.

Be first the master of yourself

Remember the friends who stuck with you when they thought you had nothing.

Life says: " Write down your experiences in a notebook, not on a blackboard. Don't start with a clean slate, but with a new page, so you can look back.

It takes courage to listen to your inner knowing … But once you hear that knowing, making a decision becomes fairly easy.

We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.

Most liberal democracies don't try to figure out what the truth is.

It is right to hate sin, but not to hate the sinner.

Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.

Permanent results only come from permanent changes in lifestyle and diet style. You don't get permanently well unless you permanently change the way you live.

I don't really like the autumn. For me it is the beginning of winter and I hate the winter. White, the colour of death.