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

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.

Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense--what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known.

Perhaps a great love is never returned.

It is not the repeated mistakes, the long succession of petty betrayals--though, God knows, they would give cause enough for anxiety and self-contempt--but the huge elementary mistake, the betrayal of that within me which is greater than I--in complacent adjustment to alien demands.

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

It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.