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

• 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.
• Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
• In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
• 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.