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.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

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.

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.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Example is leadership.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits...

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.