If you summon your courage to challenge something, you’ll never be left with regret. How sad it is to spend your life wishing, “If only I’d had a little more courage.” Whatever the outcome may be, the important thing is to step forward on the path that you believe is right.

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.

Ideal love is fostered only between two sincere, mature and independent people. Real love is not two people clinging to each other; it can only be fostered between two strong people secure in their individuality.

In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.

The place where you are now is vital. The path toward victory opens from where you stand.

Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux. Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and be swept away by it or whether we are to take the lead and create positive changes on our own initiative. While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth.

Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.