You have to reform yourself before reforming society and the world.

The most important thing... was to change their spirit; and since at that time I felt that literature was the best means to this end, I decided to promote literary movement.

Hope is like a path in the countryside. Originally, there is nothing - but as people walk this way again and again, a path appears.

As long as there shall be stones, the seeds of fire will not die.

True fighters dare face the sorrows of humanity, and look unflinchingly at bloodshed. What sorrow and joy are theirs! But the Creator's common device for ordinary people is to let the passage of time wash away old traces leaving only pale-red bloodstains and a vague pain; and he lets men live on ignobly and amid these, to keep this quasi-human world going.

Hope is like a path in the countryside.

You have to reform yourself before reforming society and the world.