Kindness works simply and perseveringly; it produces no strained relations which prejudice its working; strained relations which already exist it relaxes. Mistrust and misunderstanding it puts to flight, and it strengthens itself by calling forth answering kindness. Hence it is the furthest reaching and the most effective of all forces.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

Our degeneration, when it is traced back to its origin in our view of the world really consists in the fact that true optimism has vanished unperceived from our midst.

Man can no longer live his life for himself alone. We realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all this life. From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship to the universe.

The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed.

I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live.

You ask me for a motto. Here it is: SERVICE.