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...
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.
By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.
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.
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.
Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
Example is leadership.
The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
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.
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
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.
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...
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.
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.
Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
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.
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...