A capacity to change is indispensable. Equally indispensable is the capacity to hold fast to that which is good.

Once - many, many years ago - I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought that I was wrong

The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good

I'm making progress if today's problems are different from yesterday's.

A capacity to change is indispensable. Equally indispensable is the capacity to hold fast to that which is good.

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.

The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost