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

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

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

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.

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.

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