The ethic of Reverence for Life prompts us to keep each other alert to what troubles us and to speak and act dauntlessly together in discharging the responsibility that we feel. It keeps us watching together for opportunities to bring some sort of help to animals in recompense for the great misery that men inflict upon them, and thus for a moment we escape from the incomprehensible horror of existence.

At 20 everyone has the face that God gave them, at 40 the face that life gave them, and at 60 the face they earned.

Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches.

The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery.

The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.

The most difficult thing I have ever had to do is follow the guidance I prayed for.

Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind independent of the one prevalent among the crowd and in opposition to it. A new public opinion must be created privately and unobtrusively. The existing one is maintained by the press, by propaganda, by organization, and by financial influences which are at its disposal. The unnatural way of spreading ideas must be opposed by the natural one, which goes from man to man and relies solely on the truth of the thoughts and the hearer's receptiveness of new truth.