Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation.

The 'great' commitment is so much easier than the ordinary everyday one.

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.

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.

When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish it is then that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

Forgiving is forgetting, in spite of remembering.

I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.