Search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

The harvested fields bathed in the autumn mist speak of God and his goodness far more vividly than any human lips.

My view is that we stand up for treating the animals in a considerate way, for completely renouncing the eating of meat and also for speaking out against it. This is what I do myself. And in this way many a one becomes aware of a problem that was put forward so late.

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.

We need a boundless ethic, one which will include the animals, too. Until we extend the circle of his compassions to all living things, we will not find peace.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

You ask me for a motto. Here it is: SERVICE.