We have a responsibility to look after our planet. It is our only home.

I'd rather be kind than right. You can always be kind.

I want to say, without hesitation, the purpose of our life is happiness.

The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts.

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

Women have the capacity to lead us to a more peaceful world with compassion, affection, and kindness.

I think technology really increased human ability, but technology cannot produce compassion.

You must not hate those who do wrong or harmful things; but with compassion, you must do what you can to stop them — for they are harming themselves, as well as those who suffer from their actions.

Once you have a genuine sense of concern for others, there’s no room for cheating, bullying or exploitation.

Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.

My message is always the same: to cultivate and practice love, kindness, compassion and tolerance.

A learned person will become noble only when he or she has put into real practice what has been learned, instead of mere words.

The more we think of others, the happier we are. The more we think of ourselves, the more suffering we feel.

The foundation of the Buddha's teachings lies in compassion, and the reason for practicing the teachings is to wipe out the persistence of ego, the number-one enemy of compassion.

It is the state of mind of the person wielding the instrument that determines to what end it will be put.

Try to remain truthful. The power of truth never declines. Force and violence may be effective in the short term, but in the long run it's truth that prevails.