Ikeda says: "No one who has left our organization has achieved happiness."

From "The Desire for Kosen-rufu Is the Wellspring of Happiness," Ikeda's address to a meeting at the World Peace Ikeda Auditorium in Santa Monica, CA, on Jan. 31, 1993, published in the March 1993 Seikyo Times magazine (precursor to Living Buddhism magazine), p. 41.

Funny, I don't remember Ikeda asking ME if I'm happier now than when I was in the cult. But perhaps that's why Ikeda apparently doesn't say such damning and obviously untrue stuff any more - but I'm sure he keeps his editors busy!