In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.

It seemed to me a matter of course that we should all take our share of the burden of pain which lies upon the world.

Reverence for life, veneratio vitæ, is the most direct and at the same time the profoundest achievement of my will-to-live.

We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government.

Man can no longer live his life for himself alone. We realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all this life. From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship to the universe.

I decided that I would make my life my argument.