We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

Every start on an untrodden path is a venture which only in unusual circumstances looks sensible and likely to succeed.

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.

I am life which wants to live admidst of lives that want to live.

Whatever you have received more than others-in health, in talents, in ability, in success, in a pleasant childhood, in harmonious conditions of home life-all this you must not take to yourself as a matter of course. In gratitude for your good fortune, you must remember in return some sacrifice of your own life for another life.

Thinking about death... produces love for life. When we are familiar with death, we accept each week, each day, as a gift. Only if we are able thus to accept life bit by bit does it become precious.

When man learns to respect even the smallest being of creation...nobody has to teach him to love his fellow man. Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.