Out of the experience of extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud.

A society that does not value its older people denies its roots and endangers its future. Let us strive to enhance their capacity to support themselves for as long as possible and, when they cannot do so anymore, to care for them.

Take it upon yourself where you live to make people around you joyful and full of hope.

The virtue and the strength of UWC is that it provides small, but powerful cells of innovation, catalysts for change, breaking barriers of habit and opening broader vistas of experience for both pupils and educationalists.

Poverty is not natural; it is man-made

A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

There are few misfortunes in this world that you cannot turn into a personal trimuph if you have the iron will and the neccessary skill.