When I was young, I set and determined the goals in my life, and the measure of my aspirations. All of a sudden, I find that I have passed through my youth and middle age, and am approaching my senior years. If there is one regret I have, it is that I was unable to achieve completion and call upon my Father while I was in my youth. That is, I'm sad that I couldn't say "Father" during the same phase of life as Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. That's why you folks are in such a fortunate position.

As the one who is inheriting the undiluted tradition of God, I have to always go the direct path. I have to consider those students and teachers who do not know the Will as pitiful and unfortunate people. Also, I have to always think about how much God worked and labored in order to find and establish me.

I have to subjugate that which is unrighteous. And it takes thousands of times more effort to subjugate force with something other than force. \I have to set up a unity of loyalty and piety that can conquer and deal with any environment or circumstances. And I have to start with a pure mind and make unfaltering progress until I achieve my goal.

The Principle is like a traffic policeman, and the goal of the Principle is my life. If one walks toward the goal with all one's faith and sincerity, then signposts appear. Each of you, in the very environment in which you are situated, needs to make a historical departure, a historical beginning. And you have to plant and nurture the seeds of genuine sincerity. (21-83)

What is the thing that your mind wants most of all? This is the important question. If there is something in the world most worth having, then our youngsters are the ones who have to grab it. If one person isn't enough, and even if it takes ten, or a hundred, or a thousand, or ten thousand, you have to stick tightly together, and then grab it all together.

How many junior and senior high school students are there in Korea? Would it be a few million? That's a pretty big bunch. If there is something really good which would take a million or so all connected together as in a bunch of ants to get, could you mobilize a million students? If you can do that, should we make such a movement to go and grab that thing, or not? [We should] Well, the thing is, I'm the only person who knows what that particular thing is. I've got to mobilize you youngsters, but what are you going to do? If you youngsters don't mobilize, then you will have no connection whatsoever with that most valuable thing in the whole world. But, if you volunteer yourselves, step forward and say, "I can mobilize one million students in the next few years," then you will make that most desirable thing in the world your own.

In other words, if the Korean students push past all the youths and the junior and senior high school students in all the various countries in the world, and then win the high ground, then our country would be the champion country of the high school students of the world. Right? [Yes] Wouldn't it be better to feel like that? If you don't know such a feeling or passion, then that's a different matter, but if you knew that kind of feeling, would you do it? [ We would do it!] So are you going to go do it or what!? (shouting loudly) [We'll do it! ] I have to say it in an exciting way like this because you folks are young, right? (laughter)

Anyone here today who is seeing me for the first time is probably thinking, "I thought our Teacher was a really dignified and honorable gentleman, but this...this...he's like this!" But if I behave all dignified, it isn't very exciting. You won't catch fire. If I really want to whip up the spirit, I've got shout like this in a big voice: "So are you going to go do it or what?!" I've got to know about this sort of thing, too, if I want to lead you youngsters. So do you want to give it a try, or not? [Give it a try!] (33-277)

If there are any students here, then even those students, study as they must, have to shed many tears. Can you just sleep peacefully, considering the direction in which students, that is, in which university students, junior, and senior high school students, are going? You've got to think, "By my own two hands, by this flesh and blood that is my very body, I'll save the young people in my university," or, "I'll save the young people in my high school," or "I'll save the young people in that world." You've got to pledge yourself often and stand up to the line, and have the heart which, because you don't have enough power in your own limbs, can cry out with tears before Heaven a great many times. That's what you've got to do. (94-323)

When I tell you youngsters, "Work and suffer," you probably think "Aigo! Teacher! I've just been through high school, from year one in Junior High to year three in Senior High...time to stop, isn't it? You say more? Not me. I'm done for." But, wait. Think about it.

A patriot or a child of filial piety without doing all he can, even unto death, is not a genuine one.

There's really no such thing as a patriot before he's dead. Why? No matter how much hardship he has gone through, if today he utters just one word of regret, he can't be a true patriot. No matter how much of a patriot he has been, if he turns his back on his country right now, then he becomes a traitor. Isn't that so? You can only become a person who has fulfilled the letter of patriotism and filial piety after you have been loyal and filial up to the time when you pass over the frontier of death. That's absolutely true, right? [Yes] That's why as far as the public path is concerned, the course for loyalty and filial piety is the same. We call someone who gives his or her life for their country a patriot, and a son who gives his life for his parents, a filial child. (64-75)