Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come.
Albert SchweitzerThe great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used to failing.
Albert SchweitzerThe purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
Albert SchweitzerIt's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize his own true worth.
Albert SchweitzerWe wander through this life together in a semi-darkness in which none of us can distinguish exactly the features of his neighbour. Only from time to time, through some experience that we have of our companion, or through some remark that he passes, he stands for a moment close to us, as though illuminated by a flash of lightning. Then we see him as he really is.
Albert Schweitzer