God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.

Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

I believe the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and make it possible for him to develop into a creative personality.

What is essential in the life of a man of my kind is what he thinks and how he thinks, and not what he does or suffers.

The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no room left by the side of this ordered regularity for causes of a different nature. For him neither the rule of human nor the rule of divine will exist as an independent cause of natural events.

We must learn the difficult lesson that the future of Mankind will only be tolerable when our course, in world affairs as in others, is based upon justice and law rather than the threat of naked power.

The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description.