I look back upon my youth and realize how so many people gave me help, understanding, courage - very important things to me - and they never knew it. They entered into my life and became powers within me.

Ethics has not only to do with mankind but with the animal creation as well. This is witnessed in the purpose of St. Francis of Assisi. Thus we shall arrive that ethics is reverence for all life. This is the ethic of love widened universally. It is the ethic of Jesus now recognized as a necessity of thought...Only a universal ethic which embraces every living creature can put us in touch with the universe and the will which is there manifest.

In resigning ourselves to our fate without a struggle, we are guilty of inhumanity.

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

The path of awakening is not about becoming who you are. Rather it is about unbecoming who you are not.

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

I am certain and have always stressed that the destination of mankind is to become more and more humane. The ideal of humanity has to be revived.