Human rights are...the quintessential values through which we affirm together that we are a single human community.
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.
A man’s value depends upon his courage and resolution, his veracity depends upon his traits of nobility and self respect and his chastity depends upon his sense of honour.
The highest form of human intelligence is to observe yourself without judgment.
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.
