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

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

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

“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 radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.”

“If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.”

“It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.”

“It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.”

“It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.”

“It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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?”

“The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.”

“The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.”

“The myths have always condemned those who 'looked back.' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.”

“The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.”

“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.”

“Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.”

“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.”

“Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.”

“To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.”

“Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.”