“Sometimes when I meet old friends, it reminds me how quickly time passes.”

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.

An eye for an eye. We are all blind.

If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.

The very purpose of our life is to seek happiness.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.

An open heart is an open mind.

If I am only happy for myself, many fewer chances for happiness. If I am happy when good things happen to other people, billions more chances to be happy!

A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

Because we all share this planet earth, we have to learn to live in harmony and peace with each other and with nature. This is not just a dream, but a necessity.

It is not enough to be compassionate, we must act.

Human use, population, and technology have reached that certain stage where mother Earth no longer accepts our presence with silence.

The true hero is one who conquers his own anger and hatred.

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being.

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

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.

Dynamism is a function of change.

What we have been, or now are, we shall not be tomorrow.

There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.

Can’t change what you don’t acknowledge.

Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don’t change.

You can’t change other people or (some) conditions; you can change only your reactions to them.

When you love something, you get to know it. Then you feel the ownership and if it changes, you only love it as far as you know it because then you’re like, “What is this?”