Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, ...

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.

Friendship needs no words.

I never discuss discussions.

Life yields only to the conqueror.

I have only my own burden to bear.

What you must dare: is to be yourself.

Perhaps a great love is never returned.

Do not seek death. Death will find you.

Each day the first day: Each day a life.

The longest journey is the journey inward.

Only one feat is possible: not to have run away.

Forgiving is forgetting, in spite of remembering.

Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.

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

Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.

Creative people have to be fed from the divine source.

Doffing the ego's safe glory, he finds his naked reality.

For all that has been, Thanks. To all that shall be, Yes.

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

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

For all that has been, Thank you. For all that is to come, Yes!

I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.

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

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

We all have within us a center of stillness surrounded by silence.

Peacekeeping is not a job for soldiers, but only soldiers can do it.

We cannot afford to forget any experience, not even the most painful.

The truth is so simple that it is regarded as a pretentious banality.

He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn't reserve a plot for weeds.

Unless there is a spiritual renaissance, the world will know no peace.

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

The 'great' commitment is so much easier than the ordinary everyday one.

Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each one of us.

I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.

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

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

Set-backs in efforts to implement an ideal do not prove that the ideal is wrong...

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation.

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

Isn't the fulfillment of our duty towards our neighbor an expression of deepest desire?

To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement.

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

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

The UN wasn't created to take mankind into paradise, but rather, to save humanity from hell.

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

On the bookshelf of life, God is a useful work of reference, always at hand but seldom consulted.

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.

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

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