It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses. - Dag Hammarskjöld

Is my contact with others anything more than a contact with reflections? Who or what can give me the power to transform the mirror into a doorway?

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.

It is not the repeated mistakes, the long succession of petty betrayals — though, God knows, they would give cause enough for anxiety and self-contempt — but the huge elementary mistake, the betrayal of that within me which is greater than I — in complacent adjustment to alien demands.