Be grateful as your deeds become less and less associated with your name, as your feet ever more lightly tread the earth.

Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation.

The UN wasn't created to take mankind into paradise, but rather, to save humanity from hell.

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.

Each morning we must hold out the chalice of our being to receive, to carry, and give back. It must be held out empty - for the past must only be reflected in its polish, its shape, its capacity.

It was when Lucifer first congratulated himself upon his angelic behavior that he became the tool of evil.

Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. A mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.