Sometimes it is extremely good for you to forget that there is anything in the world which needs to be done, and to do some particular thing that you want to do. Every human being needs a certain amount of time in which he can be peaceful.

Philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.

I have always felt that it was important that everyone who was a worker join a labor organization.

it is always easier to do nothing than to try a new line of action.

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.

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.

How hard it is to project oneself into the future. We are always prone to think of the conditions which are with us today as being permanent conditions.