Have the depth of faith to regard everything as a source for creating happiness and value.

Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.

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

The gratification of desire is not happiness.

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.

Hopes, dreams, faith and a sense of mission enable us to open up our lives.

As long as we are human, we are destined to make mistakes. We all fall prey to flawed beliefs and views. What separates a forward-looking person from an intransigent one, a virtuous person from a malevolent one, however, is whether one can candidly admit to ones mistakes and take bold steps to redress them.