Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

In the same way as the tree bears the same fruit year after year, but each time new fruit, all lastingly valuable ideas in thinking must always be reborn.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

You ask me for a motto. Here it is: SERVICE.

Nature compels us to recognize the fact of mutual dependence, each life necessarily helping the other lives who are linked to it. In the very fibers of our being, we bear within ourselves the fact of the solidarity of life.

Every patient carries his or her own doctor inside.

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.