If you truly desire happiness, seek and learn how to serve.

From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.

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

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.

Happiness is the only thing that multiplies when you share it.

Not only is example the best way to teach, it is the only way.

Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.

Let us rejoice in the truth, wherever we find its lamp burning.

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

You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality.

I am life which wants to live admidst of lives that want to live.

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

Renunciation of thinking is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy.

Love . . . includes fellowship in suffering, in joy and in effort.

Good is that which promotes life, evil is that which destroys life

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

For those who sincerely seek the truth should not fear the outcome.

The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery.

Be faithful to your love and you mill be recompensed beyond measure.

The city of truth cannot be built on the swampy ground of skepticism.

Love is the only thing that increases twofold every time it is shared.

I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live.

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

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

Think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flames within us.

We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

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

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

We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government.

Even if it is a little thing, do something for those who have need of help.

It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.

Don't let your hearts grow numb. Stay alert. It is your soul which matters.

Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice

The only ones who will find real happiness are those who find a way to serve

Only those who respect the personality of others can be of real use to them.

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

Search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

If you own something you cannot give away, then you don't own it, it owns you.

I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult.

The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.

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

He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.

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

If you study life deeply, its profundity will seize you suddenly with dizziness.

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

Every person I have known who has been truly happy has learned how to serve others.

In resigning ourselves to our fate without a struggle, we are guilty of inhumanity.

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