Famous quotes by Diplomats

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

"Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road"

"Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates"

"Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy"

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

"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 more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside"

"The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war"

"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"

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

"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"

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

"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"

"In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us"

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

"If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party"

"I never discuss discussions"

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

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

"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"

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

"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"

"Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves"

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

"Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning"

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

"A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility"

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

"Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up"