No matter how much wealth or power one may possess, such things vanish like a fleeting dream in the face of the unrelenting reality of old age and death. What is crucial, then, is the philosophy one upholds and the life one has lived.
>From The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 1, revised edition, pp. 297-298

Daisaku Ikeda

We of the Soka Gakkai, however, are able to exert ourselves fully today, confident that our movement for kosen-rufu will show wonderful development thirty or fifty years from now. Why? Because we have successors, our future division members.
>From The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 3, revised edition, p. 408

Daisaku Ikeda

When we cannot say thank you, our personal growth has stopped. When we are growing, we can see how wonderful others are too. When we stop growing, all we see are other people’s faults. From The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 2, revised edition, p. 67

Daisaku Ikeda