The world cannot live at peace without the United Nations. For this reason: it creates a reasonable guarantee that all this change in the world, these tremendous political and economic developments, can be channelized, kept orderly. The United Nations is a mold that keeps the hot metal from spilling over.

The concept of loyalty is distorted when it is understood to mean blind acceptance. It is correctly interpreted when it is assumed to cover honest criticism.

The life of simplicity is simple, but it opens to us a book in which we never get beyond the first syllable.

On the bookshelf of life, God is a useful work of reference, always at hand but seldom consulted.

He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness can be a communion.

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.

At some moment I did answer "Yes" to someone or something. And from that hour on I was certain that existence is meaningful.