No matter what country or culture you’re from, you always believe in friendship, you always believe in human values, and you always believe in peace.
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.
Every person has both a bad heart and a good heart. No matter how good a man seems, he has some evil. No matter how bad a man seems, there is some good about him. No man is perfect.
Rendering help to another is the function of all human beings.
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.
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.
When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises.
Human rights are...the quintessential values through which we affirm together that we are a single human community.
