Ethics cannot be based upon our obligations toward people, but they are complete and natural only when we feel this Reverence for Life and the desire to have compassion for and to help all creatures insofar as it is in our power. I think that this ethic will become more and more recognized because of its great naturalness and because it is the foundation of a true humanism toward which we must strive if our culture is to become truly ethical.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

Don't let your hearts grow numb. Stay alert. It is your soul which matters.

Knowing all truth is less than doing a little bit of good.

My life is my argument.

Mysticism occurs whenever a human being sees the separation between the natural and the supernatural, between the temporal and the eternal, as overcome.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.