Smiles Are Treasures-The Key to Making Friends Everywhere

What is the most precious of all treasures? It is nothing other than the life in each of you, the smile on every one of you! Alively, smiling face - this is the passport of a global citizen making friends with people everywhere. Each of you was born into this world carrying such a passport. Let us create a world,a time, a century in which simply being human is reason enough to greeet each other with a smile. - Excepts from "Salute to Smiling Faces Kit with Hopes in the 21th Century - Dedicated to My Dear Young Friends of Beyer Elementary School" (written by Daisaku Ikeda on August 24,2001, http://sokaeducation.wordpress.com/page/2/)