Brothers and sisters of Egypt, you have given the world the most precious gift: the belief that ultimately right will prevail.

We need other human beings in order to be human.

We are fundamentally good, and evil is an aberration.

You might have thought that a world such as ours, so hard-nosed and cynical and brash, would have very little time for transcendence, spiritual values of goodness and compassion, gentleness, and caring, but we actually do experience them.

Once you have women liberated, it's amazing how many other problems get resolved--pover ty, education, health. Women are the key in any community.

Anything war can do, peace can do better.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.