Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

We cannot understand what happens in the universe. What is glorious in it is united with what is full of horror. What is full of meaning is united to what is senseless. The spirit of the universe is at once creative and destructive — it creates while it destroys and destroys while it creates, and therefore it remains to us a riddle. And we must inevitably resign ourselves to this.

The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.

In resigning ourselves to our fate without a struggle, we are guilty of inhumanity.

Love is the only thing that increases twofold every time it is shared.

The witch doctor succeeds for the same reason all the rest of us succeed. Each patient carries his or her own doctor inside him or her. They come to us not knowing that truth. We are at our best when we give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work.