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

He who nurtures benevolence for all creatures within his heart overcomes all difficulties and will be the recipient of all types of riches at every step.

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.

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

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

I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.