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Above all nations is humanity.

My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind.

The world belongs to no one. There are very few people who fit into the world. And part of the struggle of every human life is to somehow claim a place on the planet, but it's at the forefront of the experience of the wandering race. The wandering people.

The notion of 'world leadership' is a curiously archaic one. The very phrase is redolent of Kipling ballads and James Bondian adventures. What makes a country a world leader? Is it population, in which case India is on course to top the charts, overtaking China as the world's most populous country by 2034?

To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.

Relations between countries are built on values and interests and many other things, but at the end of the day, leaders are also only human beings.

Though we live in the world, we must not be of the world.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.