No matter what country or culture you’re from, you always believe in friendship, you always believe in human values, and you always believe in peace.
The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.
Human rights are...the quintessential values through which we affirm together that we are a single human community.
A man who is averse to harming even the wind knows the sorrow of all living things.
If there is to be a human future, we must bring ourselves into balanced relationship with one another and the Earth. This requires building economies with the heart.
Human beings protect the purity of manmade temples. Similarly, looking after the sanctity of this human body, a temple created by God, should become a spiritual endeavour that is of utmost importance.
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.
Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness.
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.
