I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.