Daisaku Ikeda Quotes
No matter what our personal circumstances may be, if we ourselves become a source of light, then there will be no darkness in the world.
Quotes to Explore
-
I have been fighting climate change for two decades, and people often ask me how I remain hopeful in the face of extreme weather and grim forecasts. The answer is simple: I see countless solutions spreading across the nation and across the world. But we need more investment.
-
My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries.
-
My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.
-
After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
-
Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.
-
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
-
Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
-
It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you when you go.
-
The Pyramids are perfect, but you can't put the Pyramids in the middle of Manhattan. In the desert, the combination of light and form makes it perfect.
-
The 8 P.M. hour in the cable news world is currently driven by the indomitable Bill O'Reilly, Nancy Grace, and Keith Olbermann. Shedding my own journalistic skin to try to inhabit the kind of persona that might coexist in that lineup is just impossible for me.
-
'Lord of the Rings' was about saving the world, big time, big duties.
-
Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.
-
It's time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress. Change charity, and charity can change the world.
-
I'm so happy after such a long struggle to be living my true self. Welcome to the world, Caitlyn. Can't wait for you to get to know her/me.
-
Frivolous lawsuits are booming in this county. The U.S. has more costs of litigation per person than any other industrialized nation in the world, and it is crippling our economy.
-
With the world changing fast, we needed capital for investments. There's only so much bandwidth in your own balance sheet.
-
In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less.
-
I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, how that place was shaping my experience of the world. I had to go to the Northeast for graduate school because I felt like I had to get far away from my South, be outside it, to understand it.
-
Polaroid by its nature makes you frugal. You walk around with maybe two packs of film in your pocket. You have 20 shots, so each shot is a world.
-
A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
-
I own buildings. I'm a builder; I know how to build. Nobody can build like I can build. Nobody. And the builders in New York will tell you that. I build the best product. And my name helps a lot.
-
I've established a certain voice over my albums. It can be an obstacle, but in the end, I think it's a strength, because I can build upon that voice, which is ultimately very much mine.
-
If you keep hiding your true self, your life becomes like slow death. Once you become free from the lies and the hiding of yourself, then life becomes vibrant again.
-
No matter what our personal circumstances may be, if we ourselves become a source of light, then there will be no darkness in the world.
