We celebrate the past to awaken the future.

The exploration of space will go ahead, whether we join in it or not, and it is one of the great adventures of all time, and no nation which expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in this race for space.

The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.

Peaceful circulation has been interupted by barbed wire and concrete blocks. For a city or a people to be truly free, they must have the secure right, without economic, political or police pressure, to make their own choices and live their own lives.

In our democracy every young person should have an equal opportunity to obtain a higher education, regardless of his station in life or financial means.

Don't ask 'Why', ask instead, 'Why not'.

I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.