Human dignity can be achieved only in the field of ethics, and ethical achievement is measured by the degree in which our actions are governed by compassion and love, not by greed and aggressiveness.

My advice to any traveler who is traveling in order to learn would be: 'Fight tooth and nail to be permitted to travel in what is technically the least efficient way.'

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

There is no such thing as gratitude in international politics.

The value of the goal lies in the goal itself; and therefore the goal cannot be attained unless it is pursued for its own sake.

A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.

The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole.