You must not for one moment give up the effort to build up new lives for yourself.

Youthfulness is not determined by age. It is determined by one's life force. One who possesses hope is forever young. One who continually advances is forever beautiful.

But I believe we must not allow feelings of defeat to take root in our hearts.

The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delicate.

To be fearless no matter what happens-that is the root of true happiness. To move forward resolutely regardless of what lies in store-that is the spirit, the resolve, that leads to human victory.

The profound unity of subjective existence and objective environment leads naturally to the idea that the life-force of one human being can affect other living beings and even the fundamental being of humankind as a whole. Furthermore, the minds of humankind fuse into one and exert a continuous influence, both physical and spiritual, on other living beings and on the whole of nature.

No matter how complex global problems may seem, it is we ourselves who have given rise to them. They cannot be beyond our power to resolve