国際児童図書評議会・世界大会での皇后の言葉

so that children have firm roots within themselves,

so that children have strong wings of joy and imagination,

so that children know love, accepting that at times love calls for pain,

so that children see and face the challenge of life's complexities, fully taking on the life given to each upon this earth which is our common home, becomes, one day true, instrument of peace.