He aha te mea nui o te ao? He tangata, he tangata, he tangata.

“What is the most important thing in the world? It is people, it is people, it is people.”

Above all else, people and human relationships are what matter most.

— Traditional New Zealand Wisdom, New Zealand

Source: Traditional Māori whakataukī (proverb), public-domain oral tradition; documented in Mead & Grove, 'Ngā Pēpeha a ngā Tīpuna' (2001)