"When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day."

"People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck."

"The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience."

"The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this."

"An hour spent in deep contemplation is worth a year of unguided wandering. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history."

"Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history."

"If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace."

"When we really delve into the reasons for why we can't let something go, there are only two: an attachment to the past or a fear for the future."