My family is very large. 42 million.

It is my deepest conviction that the children should be seen and heard as our most treasured assets.

I hate race discrimination most intensely and in all its manifestations. I have fought it all during my life; I fight it now, and will do so until the end of my days.

As the years progress one increasingly realises the importance of friendship and human solidarity. And if a 90-year-old may offer some unsolicited advice on this occasion, it would be that you, irrespective of your age, should place human solidarity, the concern for the other, at the centre of the values by which you live.

I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.

There is a constant struggle between good an evil in the world. It is up to good people to choose the right side

The Liberty Bell is "a very significant symbol for the entire democratic world."