"If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life."

"Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality."

"Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan."

"Wherever you turn, you can find someone who needs you. Even if it is a little thing, do something for which there is no pay but the privilege of doing it. Remember, you don't live in a world all of your own."

"Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal."

"One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve."

"Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter - to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water."

"Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them."

"The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character."

"Do something wonderful, people may imitate it."

"By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive."

"A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up."

"The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up."

"Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too."

"It is only through love that we can attain to communion with God. All living knowledge of God rest upon this foundation: that we experience Him in our lives as Will-to-love."

"Example is leadership."

"Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed."

"I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics."

"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."

"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."

"As we acquire more knowledge things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious."

"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."

"For animals that are overworked, underfed, and cruelly treated; for all wistful creatures in captivity that beat their wings against bars; for any that are hunted or lost or deserted or frightened or hungry; for all that must be put to death...and for those who deal with them we ask a heart of compassion and gentle hands and kindly words."

"The doctor of the future will be oneself."

"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."

"If you love something so much let it go. If it comes back it was meant to be, if it doesn't it never was."

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

"Even if it's a little thing do something for those who have need of help something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it."

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

"O heavenly Father,protect and bless all thingsthat have breath: guard themfrom all evil and let them sleep in peace."

"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."

"I look back upon my youth and realize how so many people gave me help, understanding, courage " very important things to me " and they never knew it. They entered into my life and became powers within me. All of us live spiritually by what others have given us, often unwittingly, in the significant hours of our life. At the time these significant hours may not even be perceived. We may not recognize them until years later when we look back, as one remembers some long-ago music or a boyhood landscape. We all owe to others much of the gentleness and wisdom that we have made our own; and we may well ask ourselves what will others owe to us."

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

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

"We wander through this life together in a semi-darkness in which none of us can distinguish exactly the features of his neighbour. Only from time to time through some experience that we have of our companion or through some remark that he passes he stands for a moment close to us as though illuminated by a flash of lightning. Then we see him as he really is."

"Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life."