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

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights - This great and inspiring instrument was born of an increased sense of responsibility by the international community for the promotion and protection of man's basic rights and freedoms. The world has come to a clear realization of the fact that freedom, justice and world peace can only be assured through the international promotion and protection of these rights and freedoms.

The war we have to wage today has only one goal, and that is to make the world safe for diversity.

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

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

I don't like to be disturbed at home; I tell the cable office not to call me before 6:30 AM, unless there's a war.

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.