Every person I have known who has been truly happy has learned how to serve others.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

Does my behavior in respect of love affect nothing? That is because there is not enough love in me.

Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

We must all die. But that I can save him from days of torture, that is what I feel as my great and ever new privilege. Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.

Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.