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.
Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.
I don't know what your destiny will be, but 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.
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.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.
The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
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.
We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.
Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.