My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war...

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

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.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

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 purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.