The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.

All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial.

We can hope that men will understand that the interest of all are the same, that hope lies in cooperation. We can then perhaps keep PEACE.

The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.

It is frightening that in recent years such an increase has occurred in acts of terrorism, which have even reached peaceful countries such as ours. And as a "remedy", more and more security forces are established to protect the lives of individual men and women.

First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.

My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics