The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

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

Forgiving is forgetting, in spite of remembering.

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.

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

To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement.

Unless there is a spiritual renaissance, the world will know no peace.