'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. To be humble is not to make comparisons. Secure in its reality, the self is neither better nor worse, bigger nor smaller, than anything else in the universe. It is ? is nothing, yet at the same time one with everything. It is in this sense that humility is absolute self-effacement.

It is more important to understand the ground of your own behavior than to understand the motives of another.

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

On the bookshelf of life, God is a useful work of reference, always at hand but seldom consulted.

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.