Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness -- by making the ultimate escape from life. -- No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it.

Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.

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

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

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.

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

It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.