Nothing We Learn In This World Is

Friendship With Oneself Is All Important.

There Never Has Been Security. No Man Has Ever Known What He Would Meet Around The Next Corner; If Life Were Predictable It Would Cease To Be Life, And Be Without Flavor.

It Is A Rather Curious Thing To Have To Divide One's Life Into Personal And Official Compartments And Temporarily Put The Personal Side Into Its Hidden Compartment To Be Taken Out Again When One's Official Duties Are At An End.

I Could Not At Any Age Be Content To Take My Place In A Corner By The Fireside And Simply Look On.

We Stand Today At The Threshold Of A Great Event Both In The Life Of The United Nations And In The Life Of Mankind. This Declaration May Well Become The International Magna Carta For All Men Everywhere. We Hope Its Proclamation By The General Assembly Will Be An Event Comparable To The Proclamation In 1789 [of The French Declaration Of The Rights Of Man], The Adoption Of The Bill Of Rights By The People Of The U.s., And The Adoption Of Comparable Declarations At Different Times In Other Countries.