Ultimately, the only way to make good friends is to become a good friend yourself. Good people gather around other good people.
Daisaku IkedaThe place where you are now is vital. The path toward victory opens from where you stand.
Daisaku IkedaOur hopes, desires and ambitions are powerful forces existing within us for the shaping of the future. They are the generating forces that create the future.
Daisaku IkedaPeace will be realized only by forging bonds of trust between people at the deepest level, in the depths of their very lives.
Daisaku IkedaOne cannot, without reflection, make some into bearers of goodness and others into miscreants, judging them by relative positive or negative criteria. These, like everything else, change according to historical circumstances, the character of a society, the time and subjective points of view.
Daisaku Ikeda