Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.

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

The world cannot live at peace without the United Nations. For this reason: it creates a reasonable guarantee that all this change in the world, these tremendous political and economic developments, can be channelized, kept orderly. The United Nations is a mold that keeps the hot metal from spilling over.

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

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

Each morning we must hold out the chalice of our being to receive, to carry, and give back. It must be held out empty - for the past must only be reflected in its polish, its shape, its capacity.

Doffing the ego's safe glory, he finds his naked reality.