The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.

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.

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.

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

Isn't the fulfillment of our duty towards our neighbor an expression of deepest desire?