The future of civilisation depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness that characterizes the thoughts of men today.
I don’t know what your destiny will be, but 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.
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
Let us rejoice in the truth, wherever we find its lamp burning.
The harvested fields bathed in the autumn mist speak of God and his goodness far more vividly than any human lips.
The doctor of the future will be oneself.
The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
I always think that we live, spiritually, By what others have given us in the significant hours of our life. These significant hours do not announce themselves as coming, but arrive unexpected.
Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.
Every person I have known who has been truly happy has learned how to serve others.
Not one of us knows what effect his life produces, and what he gives to others; that is hidden from us and must remain so, though we are often allowed to see some little fraction of it, so that we may not lose courage.
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
When people have light in themselves, it will shine out from them. Then we get to know each other as we walk together in the darkness, without needing to pass our hands over each other’s faces, or to intrude into each other’s hearts.
Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
Animal protection is education for humanity.