If we were strong, self-respecting and not susceptible to frightfulness, the foreign rulers would have been powerless for mischief.

I believe in God, not as a theory but as a fact more real than life itself.

Today, as it was 2,000 years ago, the Kingdom of God is within each of us. It is not within a church, a temple, a mosque or synagogue.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

So far as I can see, the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained for ages. There used to be so-called laws of war, which made it tolerable. Now we know the truth. War knows no law except that of might. The atomic bomb brought an empty victory but it resulted for the time being in destroying the soul of Japan. What has happened to the soul of the destroying nation is yet too early to see.

If the poet spun for half an hour daily, his poetry would gain in richness.

The more I reflect and look back on the past, the more vividly do I feel my limitations.