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.

To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement.

You dare your Yes - and experience a meaning...You repeat your Yes - and all things acquire a meaning...When everything has a meaning, how can you live anything but a YES.

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.

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

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

Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.