I know what real courage is, and I understand true compassion.

My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage.

And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family.

The single outstanding exception was the broad yet precise mandate communicated by the General Assembly in 1946 to prepare as soon as possible the Charter of Human Rights which the San Francisco Conference had not had the time or the courage to draw up.

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to keep it.