"Anger can be the anger and hatred one feels against war, pollution, incurable illness, poverty, or family strife, but it can also be the debilitating anger one feels against one’s own helplessness to do away with these evils. It is this latter anger that characterizes the state of Hell." Daisaku Ikeda

"What we must do is find the way to expand, to live an eternity in a single moment, to increase our life-space and life-time until they fill the universe." Daisaku Ikeda

"When we do not draw on the infinite energy of the cosmos, we run into difficulty, since we are ignoring our identity with the cosmic self." Daisaku Ikeda

"Those who have allowed themselves to become slaves of greed, ignorance, and egoism, and who have thereby lost their essential humanity, are tearing away at the soil of the earth, provoking untimely seasons, disturbing the normal movements of the seas, and thus gradually destroying the basis for life on our planet." Daisaku Ikeda

"Our lives are rooted in the past, but we must not live in the past. Nor should we allow our enthusiasm to make us lose sight of the present.
" Daisaku Ikeda

"Poetry is religion allowed to drift, left without points of application in conduct and without an expression in worship and dogma; it is religion without practical efficacy and without metaphysical illusion." George Santayana

"Religion is poetry become the guide of life, poetry substituted for science or supervening upon it as an approach to the highest reality.
" George Santayana