The harvested fields bathed in the autumn mist speak of God and his goodness far more vividly than any human lips.

There slowly grew up in me an unshakable conviction that we have no right to inflict suffering and death on another living creature, unless there is some unavoidable necessity for it.

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.

I look back upon my youth and realize how so many people gave me help, understanding, courage - very important things to me - and they never knew it. They entered into my life and became powers within me.

I am certain and have always stressed that the destination of mankind is to become more and more humane. The ideal of humanity has to be revived.

The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind.

Jesus no doubt fits his teaching into the late-Jewish messianic dogma. But he does not think dogmatically. He formulates no doctrine. He is far from judging any man's belief by reference to any standard of dogmatic correctness. Nowhere does he demand of his hearers that they shall sacrifice thinking to believing.