If human values were relative, all laws-whether those based on revealed religions or those devised by man-would become meaningless.

Two places in this world make it impossible for a man to escape from himself: a battlefield and a prison cell.

Only when he has ceased to need things can a man truly be his own master and so really exist.

I believe that for peace a man may, even should, do everything in his power. Nothing in this world could rank higher than peace.