If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

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

If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it's not religion, but you can train through education.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

I believe deeply that we must find, all of us together, a new spirituality.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.