We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

I am committed to my art. I believe that all art has as its ultimate goal the union between the material and the spiritual, the human and the divine. I believe that to be the reason for the very existence of art. And I feel I was chosen as an instrument to just give music and love and harmony to the world. To children of all ages, and adults and teenagers.... I love people of all races from my heart, with true affection.

Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.

Embrace with tender affection the whole of humanity, especially the poorest, the weakest, the least important.

Here is the true meaning and value of compassion and nonviolence, when it helps us to see the enemy's point of view, to hear his questions, to know his assessment of ourselves.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.