 Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true. |
| Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it. |
| We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness. |
| Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. |
| Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. |
| Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid. |
| 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. |
| In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. |
| Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life. |
| 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. |
| The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve. |
| My life is my argument. |
| Example is leadership. |
| The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries. |
| 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. |
| A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day. |
| Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose. |
