"I like to play golf, but I am not very good at it. I usually lose my balls in the bushes."

"The purpose of our lives is to be happy."

"I consider myself a simple Buddhist monk. My life is not complicated."

"I have been asked, 'What is the true meaning of life?' I replied, 'To be happy and useful.'"

"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."