The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.
As we know life in ourselves we want to understand life in the universe in order to enter into harmony with it.
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.
The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
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.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
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 have sought and found how to serve.
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.
Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
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.
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
I therefore used the last ten minutes of our classes to recite with them words from the Bible and verses from hymns, so that they would know them and the words would stay with them throughout their li...
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.
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...
One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.
Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
Example is leadership.