Anger is one letter short of danger.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

We will never have peace without friendship around the world.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

So, after all, we are but puppets, creatures of our fate, not commanding it but being molded by it.

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.

We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind. This declaration may well become the international Magna Carta for all men everywhere. We hope its proclamation by the General Assembly will be an event comparable to the proclamation in 1789 [of the French Declaration of the Rights of Man], the adoption of the Bill of Rights by the people of the U.S., and the adoption of comparable declarations at different times in other countries.