Hope is the sun. It is light. It is passion. It is the fundamental force for life's blossoming.

I believe that a culture of peace must be the essential foundation of our efforts for peace.

Patience is, in and of itself, a great challenge and it often holds the key to breaking through a seeming impasse.

People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures can only realize their further richness by honoring other traditions. And only by respecting natural life can humanity continue to exist.

So long as human history continues, we will face the perennial challenge of realizing, maintaining and strengthening peace through dialogue, of making dialogue the sure and certain path to peace. We must uphold and proclaim this conviction without cease, whatever coldly knowing smiles or cynical critiques may greet us.

Hope changes everything. It changes winter into summer, darkness into dawn, descent into ascent, barrenness into creativity, agony into joy.

No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation.