Today . . . we know that all living beings who strive to maintain life and who long to be spared pain - all living beings on earth - are our neighbors.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo. We need a boundless ethics which will include the animals also. My life is full of meaning to me. The life around me must be full of significance to it. If I want others to respect my life, then I must respect the other life I see however strange it may be to mine. Ethics in our western world has hitherto been largely limited to the relation of man to man... but that is a limited ethics.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

When people have light in themselves, it will shine out from them. Then we get to know each other as we walk together in the darkness, without needing to pass our hands over each other's faces, or to intrude into each other's hearts.

At 20 everyone has the face that God gave them, at 40 the face that life gave them, and at 60 the face they earned.

Does my behavior in respect of love affect nothing? That is because there is not enough love in me.