Understanding, love and tolerance are the highest forms of interest on out small and interdependent planet.

The concept of peaceful coexistence has been criticized by many who do not see the need to make the world safe for diversity. I wonder if they have ever paused to ask themselves the question: What is the alternative to coexistence?

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

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.

Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.

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

The single most important impediment to global institutions is the concept of "my country, right or wrong".