Occupation: Diplomat Birth: July 29, 1905 Death: September 18, 1961
We've got to learn hard things in our lifetime, but it's love that gives you the strength. It's being nice to people and having a lot of fun and laug….
At every moment you choose yourself. But do you choose *your* self? Body and soul contain a thousand possibilities out of which you can build many I'….
What you must dare: is to be yourself..
Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each of us. To build for man a world without fear, we must be without fear. To build a worl….
Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions..
To have humility is to experience reality, not in relation to ourselves, but in its sacred independence. It is to see, judge, and act from the point ….
For all that has been, Thanks. To all that shall be, Yes..
Each morning we must hold out the chalice of our being to receive, to carry, and give back. It must be held out empty - for the past must only be ref….
You dare your Yes - and experience a meaning...You repeat your Yes - and all things acquire a meaning...When everything has a meaning, how can you li….
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 s….
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 illumined by the steady ra….
I don't know Who, or what, put the question, I don't know when it was put. I don't even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to So….
For all that has been, Thank you. For all that is to come, Yes!.
Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away..
Forgiving is forgetting, in spite of remembering..
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was..
Peacekeeping is not a job for soldiers, but only soldiers can do it..
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside..
Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon..
'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights..
You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, play with cruelty ….