My life is my argument.

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.

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 African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.

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...

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

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.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

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.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is...

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...

One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.