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.

Thinking about death... produces love for life. When we are familiar with death, we accept each week, each day, as a gift. Only if we are able thus to accept life bit by bit does it become precious.

As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

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

It seemed incredible to me, that physical courage should be so commonplace and revered, while moral courage . . . is so rare and despised.

All work that is worth anything is done in faith.

Hear our humble prayer, O God. Make us, ourselves, to be true friends to the animals.