Our immediate striving must be aimed at preventing what, in the present situation, is the greatest threat to the very survival of mankind, the nuclear threat.

We can hope that men will understand that the interest of all are the same, that hope lies in cooperation. We can then perhaps keep PEACE.

All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial.

Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems.

The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized.

My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics

I have, despite all disillusionment, never, never allowed myself to feel like giving up. This is my message today; it is not worthy of a human being to give up.

There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media.

It's not worthy o human beings to give up.

The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.

War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.

When you're conscious of what you're permitting to germinate inside you, the weeds in your life will wither away of their own accord.

Finding your bliss can make survival seem like a joyous journey. And a strange thing happens along the way when you love what you are doing: you become good at it.

The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.

It is the simplest things in life that hold the most wonder; the color of the sea, the sand between your toes, the laughter of a child.

All things come into being by conflict of opposites.

A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.

You can't live a lie. You have to follow your heart.

The marketplace is democratic.

The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.

Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.