Diplomat

Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.

If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.

It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.

Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.

Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return.

The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.

A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.

The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.

The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.

Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.