Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.
Time goes by: reputation increases, ability declines.
Only one feat is possible: not to have run away.
Life only demands from you the strength you possess.
We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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.
How Forgiveness Helps Us Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is again made clean.
Friendship needs no words-it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.
God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illuminated by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
Life only demands from the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.
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.
Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
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.
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.
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.
Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
