"Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me."

"At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us."

"Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality."

"Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true."

"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."

"Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him."

"By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive."

"Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals."

"Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life."

"Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always."

"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."

"The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is."

"Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation."

"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."

"Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life."