"Responsibility is something that you have to take on yourself. You cannot wait for others to give it to you."

"History has taught us that we cannot rely on others to do our work for us."

"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."

"The only way out of the crisis is to find a new way of thinking."

"The future is uncertain precisely because it is open, and because it is open, it is full of hope."