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

I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.

It is more important to understand the ground of your own behavior than to understand the motives of another.

Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.

The longest journey
Is the journey inwards.
Of him who has chosen his destiny,
Who has started upon his quest
For the source of his being.

It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.