Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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.
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.
The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.