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.

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may seem lower than ours.

He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.

I decided that I would make my life my argument.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

You must not expect anything from others. It's you, of yourself, of whom you must ask a lot. Only from oneself has one the right to ask everything and anything. This way it's up to you - your own choices - what you get from others remains a present, a gift.