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

The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.

Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell.

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

Perhaps a great love is never returned. Had it been given warmth and shelter by its counterpart in the Other, perhaps it would have been hindered from ever growing to maturity. It "gives" us nothing. But in its world of loneliness it leads us up to the summits with wide vistas - of great insights.

Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.