Only when an ideal of peace is born in the minds of the peoples will the institutions set up to maintain this peace effectively fulfill the function expected of them.

The great fault of all ethics hitherto has been that they believed themselves to have to deal only with the relations of man to man. In reality, however, the question is what is his attitude to the world and all life that comes within his reach.

Not one of us knows what effect his life produces, and what he gives to others; that is hidden from us and must remain so, though we are often allowed to see some little fraction of it, so that we may not lose courage.

I decided that I would make my life my argument.

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.