You must not expect anything from others. It's you, of yourself, of whom you must ask a lot. Only from oneself has one the right to ask everything and anything. This way it's up to you - your own choices - what you get from others remains a present, a gift.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

Every patient carries his or her own doctor inside.

It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.

Because I have confidence in the power of truth, and of the spirit, I have confidence in the future of mankind.

All people are endowed with the faculty of compassion, and for this reason can develop the humanitarian spirit.

The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil.