The role of humankind is to use the cultural and social environment it has created to devise new global values.... Human relations with nature are intimately bound up in interpersonal relations and with the relation of the self and its inner life.

Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.

The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.

True happiness means forging a strong spirit that is undefeated, no matter how trying our circumstances.

A person's true nature is revealed at times of the greatest adversity.

The course of our lives is determined by how we react--what we decide and what we do--at the darkest of times. The nature of that response determines a person's true worth and greatness.

Hopes, dreams, faith and a sense of mission enable us to open up our lives.