Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this and not remain in your debt long.
The UN wasn't created to take mankind into paradise, but rather, to save humanity from hell.
It is not the Soviet Union or indeed any other big Powers who need the United Nations for their protection. It is all the others. In this sense, the Organization is first of all their Organization and I deeply believe in the wisdom with which they will be able to use it and guide it. I shall remain in my post during the term of my office as a servant of the Organization in the interests of all those other nations, as long as they wish me to do so.
At some moment I did answer "Yes" to someone or something. And from that hour on I was certain that existence is meaningful.
For all that has been, Thank you. For all that is to come, Yes!
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.
We've got to learn hard things in our lifetime, but it's love that gives you the strength. It's being nice to people and having a lot of fun and laughing harder than anything, hopefully every single day of your life.
'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish it is then that you must not hesitate.
Respect for the word - to employ it with scrupulous care and an incorruptible heartfelt love of truth - is essential if there is to be any growth in a society or in the human race. To misuse the word is to show contempt for man. It undermines the bridges and poisons the wells. It causes Man to regress down the long path of his evolution.
It is not we who seek the Way, but the Way which seeks us. That is why you are faithful to it, even while you stand waiting, so long as you are prepared, and act the moment you are confronted by its demands.
Never let success hide its emptiness from you, achievement its nothingness, toil its desolation. And so. . . keep alive the incentive to push on further, that pain in the soul which drives us beyond ourselves. . . Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward - your destiny - are here and now.
When the sense of the earth unites with the sense of one's body, one becomes earth of the earth, a plant among plants, an animal born from the soil and fertilizing it. In this union, the body is confirmed in its pantheism.
Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
We all have within us a center of stillness surrounded by silence.
The myths have always condemned those who 'looked back. ' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.
I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.
Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.
Perhaps a great love is never returned.