It seemed to me a matter of course that we should all take our share of the burden of pain which lies upon the world.

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.

Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality.

Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used to failing.

The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.

I still remain convinced that truth, love, peaceableness, meekness, and kindness are the violence which can master all other violence. The world will be theirs as soon as ever a sufficient number of people with purity of heart, with strength, and with perseverance think and live out the thoughts of love and truth, of meekness and peaceableness.