It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.

Never let success hide its emptiness from you, achievement its nothingness, toil its desolation. And so...keep alive the incentive to push on further, that pain in the soul which drives us beyond ourselves...Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward - your destiny - are here and now.

I never discuss discussions.

The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.

The longest journey is the journey inward.

The life of simplicity is simple, but it opens to us a book in which we never get beyond the first syllable.

'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.