Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

The 'great' commitment is so much easier than the ordinary everyday one.

You dare your Yes - and experience a meaning...You repeat your Yes - and all things acquire a meaning...When everything has a meaning, how can you live anything but a YES.

To preserve the silence within--amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the rain falls and the grain ripens--no matter how many tramp across the parade ground in whirling dust under an arid sky.

Peacekeeping is not a job for soldiers, but only soldiers can do it.

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.

The truth is so simple that it is regarded as a pretentious banality.