Profound love demands a deep conception and out of this develops reverence for the mystery of life. It brings us close to all beings, to the poorest and smallest as well as all others.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

The great fault of all ethics hitherto has been that they believed themselves to have to deal only with the relations of man to man. In reality, however, the question is what is his attitude to the world and all life that comes within his reach.

In resigning ourselves to our fate without a struggle, we are guilty of inhumanity.

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

All people are endowed with the faculty of compassion, and for this reason can develop the humanitarian spirit.

Let us rejoice in the truth, wherever we find its lamp burning.