Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life.

The mistake made by all previous systems of ethics has been the failure to recognize that life as such is the mysterious value with which they have to deal. All spiritual life meets us within natural life. Reverence for life, therefore, is applied to natural life and spiritual life alike. In the parable of Jesus, the shepherd saves not merely the soul of the lost sheep but the whole animal. The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.

A thinking man feels compelled to approach all life with the same reverence he has for his own.

Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

Any profound view of the world is mysticism. It has, of course, to deal with life and the world, both of which are nonrational entities.

If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.