Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.

I must forgive without noise or fuss.

If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Help me to fling my life like a flaming firebrand into the gathering darkness of the world.

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.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

Faith which refuses to face indisputable facts is but little faith. Truth is always gain, however hard it is to accommodate ourselves to it. To linger in any kind of untruth proves to be a departure from the straight way of faith.