A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past.

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

It is by fighting and triumphing over the enemies of the Buddha that we ourselves become Buddhas.

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

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

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.

Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist.