Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person.

The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.

I let people make remarks about me, but it doesn't touch me, all those remarks.

It's as if we live in a house which has a vast treasury in one of its rooms. Only we've forgotten about it. So, instead of living a life of royalty, we go about in poverty.

What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later, whatever, whatever. And so, it's our own karma. That is why that philosophy in every religion: Killing is sin. Killing is sin in every religion.