Public Addresses

I vow to take everything I've learned at Soka and bring it to fruition in the world. I extend my deepest appreciation to all of you.

The Nobel Peace Prize is not given for what one has done but, hopefully, for what one will do.

You don't set out to win a Nobel Peace Prize. But I encourage you to live and work diligently toward that ideal.

Anger is like electricity. It’s just as useful and just as powerful as electricity is, but only if we use it intelligently.

Daisaku Ikeda holds a crown above our heads with the hope that we will grow tall enough to wear it.

The university can serve as a source of illumination and hope, lighting with wisdom humanity’s path into the far future.

Dr. Pauling's commitment to peace and humanitarianism never faltered . . . pledging allegiance not to any nation but to humanity alone.

Dr. Gandhi has come to believe that the efforts of even a single person can bring peace to the world.

Makiguchi asserted that the human being must progress from a condition of dependence, to self-reliance, and finally to a contributive way of life.