What you must dare: is to be yourself.

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

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.

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

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.

Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.