When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

I wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very permanent.

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.

I have a great objection to seeing anyone, particularly anyone whom I care about, lose his self-control.

Terrific minds focus on tips; average minds go over activities; little minds talk about people today.

No one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.

To tell the people in the West not to use their cars means that these people may never see another soul for weeks and weeks nor have a way of getting a sick person to a doctor.