O heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath: guard them from all evil and let them sleep in peace.

The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.

There slowly grew up in me an unshakable conviction that we have no right to inflict suffering and death on another living creature, unless there is some unavoidable necessity for it.

Man's ethics must not end with man, but should extend to the universe. He must regain the consciousness of the great Chain of Life from which he cannot be separated.

At that point in life where your talent meets the needs of the world, that is where God wants you to be.

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

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