To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kindness that stands behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.

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.

Jesus as a concrete historical personality remains a stranger to our time, but His spirit, which lies hidden in His words, is known in simplicity, and its influence is direct.

To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may seem lower than ours.

If you study life deeply, its profundity will seize you suddenly with dizziness.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.