A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.

The openness of our hearts and minds can be measured by how wide we draw the circle of what we call family.

When the suffering of another creature causes you to feel pain, do not submit to the initial desire to flee from the suffering one, but on the contrary, come closer, as close as you can to her who suffers, and try to help her.