I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live.
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
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.
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.
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.
The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.
Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.
The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind.
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
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.
The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
Man can no longer live for himself alone. We must realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all life. From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship with the universe.
Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
Don’t let your hearts grow numb. Stay alert. It is your soul which matters.
Sincerity is the foundation of the spiritual life.
Any profound view of the world is mysticism. It has, of course, to deal with life and the world, both of which are nonrational entities.