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

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.

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?

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.