Isn't the fulfillment of our duty towards our neighbor an expression of deepest desire?

There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return.

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 devils enter uninvited when the house stands empty. For other kinds of guests, you have to first open the door.

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

In the presence of God, nothing stands between Him and us - we are forgiven. But we cannot feel His presence if anything is allowed to stand between ourselves and others.

Forgiving is forgetting, in spite of remembering.