Ceasing to do evil, Cultivating the good, Purifying the heart: This is the teaching of the Buddhas.

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

Whoever sees me sees the teaching, and whoever sees the teaching sees me.

For one who has abandoned craving and is free from grasping, who knows languages and their interpretations, the combinations of the letters and their order before and after, this is the final birth. The one is called the Great Being, the Great Sage.

We have created a society where individual rights and freedoms, compassion and diversity are core to our citizenship. But underlying that idea of Canada is the promise that we all have a chance to build a better life for ourselves and our children.

If you can't do great things, do little things with great love. If you can't do them with great love, do them with a little love. If you can't do them with a little love, do them anyway.