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

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

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

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

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

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.

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

Your body must become familiar with its death – in all its possible forms and degrees – as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times.

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.

Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.

I never discuss discussions.

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.

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

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

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

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