"My wish for the new millennium is for all children... to grow up wiser, and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before."

"I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism."

"The most important thing is growing old gracefully."

"How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!"

"Civilization is human rights, it is the path of setting man free from men, phobia, to survive it, we must cultivate the science of human relationships."

"I could go days, weeks, without talking to another human being."