
If there is to be a human future, we must bring ourselves into balanced relationship with one another and the Earth. This requires building economies with the heart.


Man needs to choose, not just accept his destiny.



The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own.

Human rights are...the quintessential values through which we affirm together that we are a single human community.

There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.
