When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish it is then that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.

Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.

Do not seek death. Death will find you.

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.

Unless there is a spiritual renaissance, the world will know no peace.

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

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