The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

Living truth is that alone which has its origins in thinking. Just as a tree bears year after year the same fruit which is each year new, so must all permanently valuable ideas be continually born again in thought.

Ideals are thoughts. So long as they exist merely as thoughts, the power in them remains ineffective.

When we observe contemporary society one thing strikes us. We debate but make no progress. Why? Because as peoples we do not yet trust each other.

By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe.

Our degeneration, when it is traced back to its origin in our view of the world really consists in the fact that true optimism has vanished unperceived from our midst.