English is the 'language of liberty' for nations emerging from years of cultural oppression.

Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.

We must not be afraid of dreaming the seemingly impossible if we want the seemingly impossible to become a reality.

Responsibility is something higher than my family, my country, my firm, my success. Responsibility to the order of Being, where, and only where, they will be properly judged.

It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.

The United Nations would probably have to rest on two pillars: one constituted by an assembly of equal executive representatives of individual countries, resembling the present plenary, and the other consisting of a group elected directly by the globe's population in which the number of delegates representing individual nations would, thus, roughly correspond to the size of the nations.

Genuine politics -- even politics worthy of the name -- the only politics I am willing to devote myself to -- is simply a matter of serving those around us: serving the community and serving those who will come after us. Its deepest roots are moral because it is a responsibility expressed through action, to and for the whole.