We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.

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 made clean again.

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

Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.

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.

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

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.

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