Do something good and someone might imitate it.

Affirmation of the world, which means affirmation of the will-to-live that manifests itself around me, is only possible if I devote myself to other life.

Set a great example. Someone may imitate it.

Even if it is a little thing, do something for those who have need of help.

The mistake made by all previous systems of ethics has been the failure to recognize that life as such is the mysterious value with which they have to deal. All spiritual life meets us within natural life. Reverence for life, therefore, is applied to natural life and spiritual life alike. In the parable of Jesus, the shepherd saves not merely the soul of the lost sheep but the whole animal. The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.