Only when an ideal of peace is born in the minds of the peoples will the institutions set up to maintain this peace effectively fulfill the function expected of them.
We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.
The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed.
Nature compels us to recognize the fact of mutual dependence, each life necessarily helping the other lives who are linked to it. In the very fibers of our being, we bear within ourselves the fact of the solidarity of life.
The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.
Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them.
My life carries its own meaning in itself.
Not only is example the best way to teach, it is the only way.
Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter – to all these music gives voice.
We must all die. But that I can save him from days of torture, that is what I feel as my great and ever new privilege. Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.
You ask me for a motto. Here it is: SERVICE.
The greatest living person in the world is some individual who at this very moment has gone in love to help another.
Each act of unfaithfulness toward our inner being is a blot on our souls. If we continue to be unfaithful, our souls are eventually torn apart and we slowly bleed to death.
Those who sincerely seek the truth should not fear the outcome.
The path of awakening is not about becoming who you are. Rather it is about unbecoming who you are not.
We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government.
From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.
Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.
Every start on an untrodden path is a venture which only in unusual circumstances looks sensible and likely to succeed.
There is so much coldness because we do not dare to be as cordial as we are.