"Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.

Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.

A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.

Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

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.

Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.