Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.

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.

You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, play with cruelty without losing your sensitivity of mind. He who wants to keep his garden tidy does not reserve a plot for weeds

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.

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.

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