I was taught that if you see a person drowning, you must jump into the water to save them, whether you can swim or not.

Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.

The world can be better if there's love, tolerance and humility.

Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory.

Humanity has understood nothing. Religious, tribal, national wars continue. The world continues to be in a sea of blood.

Over a half-century has passed since the hell of the Holocaust, but its spectre still hangs over the world and doesn't allow us to forget.

Kindness trumps everything. Kind people are magnets for all of the good things in life.

Just now I had a dream. I'll see you again. I know it. Beneath the falls.

If you want to have a well-ordered church, then you have to become well-ordered yourself.

Good and solid analysis and a formal way of looking at a problem [are the core ingredients of good decisions].

the flip side of success is fear. And fear is the devil. And success is the devil's dope.

This guy (Marlon Brando) - he'll be doing Hamlet when the rest of us are selling potatoes.

Freedom is entirely different from revolt. There is no such thing as doing right or wrong when there is freedom. You are free and from that centre you act.

I don't have time for a stroke!

Criticism didn't really stop us and it shouldn't ever stop anyone, because critics are only the people who can't get a record deal themselves.

That's the trouble with our charities; we are always saving somebody away off, when the fellow next to us ain't eating.