The conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice... must become our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession.

If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it.

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

Second only to freedom, learning is the most precious option on earth.

The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources-spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical.

Of all the gifts bestowed by nature on human beings, hearty laughter must be close to the top.

War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.