Good is that which promotes life, evil is that which destroys life

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kindness that stands behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.

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

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.

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.

Where principles and heart stand in conflict with each other, let us make the law of the spirit free from the law of principles.