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

All people are endowed with the faculty of compassion, and for this reason can develop the humanitarian spirit.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used to failing.

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.

I do not know what your destiny may be, but I do know this, that not one of you will find the happiness that each of you is seeking until you have first sought and found a way in which to unselfishly serve others.

The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.