"The heart has its reasons which reason knows not."
- Blaise Pascal
"I go to seek a Great Perhaps."
- François Rabelais
"Even if things don't unfold the way you expected, don't be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end."
- Daisaku Ikeda
"it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings."
"Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yours..."
"A great human revolution in just a single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a nation and, further, can even enable a change in the destiny of all humankind."
"The institutions of human society treat us as parts of a machine. They assign us ranks and place considerable pressure upon us to fulfill defined roles. We need something to help us restore our lost a..."
"How aware are we of our own inner life, our spirituality-something so intangible yet so priceless? How much effort do we make to perceive that which is not obvious, which can neither be seen nor heard..."
"I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.", 1657)"
"I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter."