"My main interest is to promote human values, compassion, forgiveness, tolerance, self-discipline, contentment. That's my main interest."

"The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis."

"My main interest is to make people happy. If they are happy, I am happy."

"My mother was my first teacher. She was a very kind and compassionate person. She never went to school, but she had a lot of common sense."

"Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend — or a meaningful day."