Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now - always and, indeed then most truly, when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances.

I believe that I possess this value: to serve Jesus. I am less at peace than if my goal would be to attain a professorship and a good life, but I live. And that gives me the tremendous feeling of happiness, as if one would hear music. One feels uprooted, because one asks, what lies ahead, what decisions should I make-but more alive, happier than those anchored in life. To drift with released anchor.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.

The gratitude ascending from man to God is the supreme transaction between earth and heaven.

Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.

Because I have confidence in the power of truth, and of the spirit, I have confidence in the future of mankind.