That's my private ant. You're liable to break its legs.

We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government.

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.

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.

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

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.