It is now, more than ever, necessary that political leaders be outstanding for honesty, integrity and commitment to the common good.

We must regain the conviction that we need one another, that we have a shared responsibility for others and the world, and that being good and decent are worth it. We have had enough of immorality and the mockery of ethics, goodness, faith and honesty. It is time to acknowledge that light-hearted superficiality has done us no good.

Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war.

To harm another is to harm oneself.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

Good literature proceeds from men of natural probity, and since one ought rather to praise the inception than the result, you should give greater praise to a man of probity unskilled in letters than to one skilled in letters but devoid of probity.