The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.

Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality.

When man learns to respect even the smallest being of creation...nobody has to teach him to love his fellow man. Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

Only those who respect the personality of others can be of real use to them.

Because I have confidence in the power of truth, and of the spirit, I have confidence in the future of mankind.

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

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.