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.
Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.
Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.
Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.
Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.
Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.
I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.
By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.
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.
The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
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. Your brothers are here too.
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.
We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
