You cannot take the life of your times further than you have taken yourself.

You cannot take the life of your times further than you have taken yourself.

On the night that the Second World war was declared, there were crowds in the street. It was a summer's night and there was a blackout. On every side you heard people crying: 'Look at the moon!' The moon had been there every minute of their lives and they'd never seen it.

The age of leaders has come and gone. You must be your own leader now. You must contain the spirit of our time in your own life and your own nature. You must really explore, as you've never explored before, what human nature is like.

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

Of all man's inborn dispositions there is none more heroic than the love in him. Everything else accepts defeat and dies, but love will fight no-love every inch of the way.

We have a mighty task before us. The earth needs our assistance.