An idea is, in the end, always stronger than circumstances.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.

If there is anything I have learned about men and women, it is that there is a deeper spirit of altruism than is ever evident. Just as the rivers we see are minor compared to the underground streams, so, too, the idealism that is visible is minor compared to what people carry in their hearts unreleased or scarcely released.

Love ... is a living reality.

A good example has twice the value of good advice

I believe that I possess this value: to serve Jesus. I am less at peace than if my goal would be to attain a professorship and a good life, but I live. And that gives me the tremendous feeling of happiness, as if one would hear music. One feels uprooted, because one asks, what lies ahead, what decisions should I make-but more alive, happier than those anchored in life. To drift with released anchor.