If the extension of your compassion does not include all living beings, then you will be unable to find peace by yourself.

The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery. Neither knowledge nor hope for the future can be the pivot of our life or determine its direction. It is intended to be solely determined by our allowing ourselves to be gripped by the ethical God, who reveals Himself in us, and by our yielding our will to His.

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.

The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

The gratitude that we encounter helps us believe in the goodness of the world, and strengthens us thereby to do what's good.

Who can describe the injustice and the cruelties that in the course of centuries the peoples of color of the world have suffered at the hands of Europeans?... We and our civilization are burdened, really, with a great debt. We are not free to confer benefits on these men, or not, as we please; it is our duty. Anything we give them is not benevolence but atonement.