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

For all that has been, Thank you. For all that is to come, Yes!

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

This accidental meeting of possibilities calls itself I. I ask: what am I doing here? And, at once, this I becomes unreal.

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.

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

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