Daisaku Ikeda Quotes

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Success doesn't change you; fame does.

He is a very smart cookie, Michael. He knows what he wants, he knows what he is doing. I have nothing but admiration. Also, he is a very kind person.

Nobody makes me do anything I don't want to do. It's my decision. So the biggest devil is me. I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy. And that's how I have to deal with it.

Let's go for a drive OK? Well I'll go for a drive, you'll go for a ride. The person who drives the car they go for a drive, the other people they go for a ride. People don't know that, tell them when they're in your car. Say "you assholes are goin' for a ride!

The quality of your life is the quality of your communication.

But what's the alternative? What's the alternative to pumping out a unit every nine months? Pointless careerism? Pointless careerism, putting on a man tailored suit and shoulder pads and imitating all the worst behavior of men? Is this the noblest thing that women can think of?

Put the dwarf within you to sleep.

The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.

My approach to politics is that I never said I'm smart. But why aren't I allowed to write about my experience?

I must learn to brook being happier than I deserve.

By the way, what have you done that's so great? Do you create anything, or just criticize others work and belittle their motivations?

I couldn't tell you because even I don't know who I am yet.

After the birth of my first child, I believed in the things society said about how my body should look.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

After "Jammin' In New York", I went from a comedian who wrote his own material to a writer who performed his own material... I became socially conscious, and found I had something to say that wasn't too common.