Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
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.
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.
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.
Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.
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.
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.
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.
Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.
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.
The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
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.
This new form of activity medicine I could not represent to myself as talking about the religion of love, but only as an actual putting it into practice.
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
Whosoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others.
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