As a Buddhist, I was trained to be tolerant of everything except intolerance. I was brought up not only to develop the spirit of tolerance but also to cherish moral and spiritual qualities such as modesty, humility, compassion, and, most important, to attain a certain degree of emotional equilibrium.

In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Governments, systems, ideologies come and go, but it is humanity which remains.

World federalists hold before us the vision of a unified mankind living in peace under a just world order... The heart of their program-a world under law- is realistic and attainable.

As a Buddhist, I was trained to be tolerant of everything except intolerance

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love andcompassion would have built the defenses of peace.