I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

Seek always to do some good, somewhere... Even if it's a little thing, so something for those that need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.

It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed.

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

The gratitude that we encounter helps us believe in the goodness of the world, and strengthens us thereby to do what's good.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

Reverence for life, veneratio vitæ, is the most direct and at the same time the profoundest achievement of my will-to-live.