
If there is to be a human future, we must bring ourselves into balanced relationship with one another and the Earth. This requires building economies with the heart.

There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.


No matter what country or culture you’re from, you always believe in friendship, you always believe in human values, and you always believe in peace.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.




A man who is averse to harming even the wind knows the sorrow of all living things.
