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Always looking for a way to do good.

For the man who has passed the age of sixty, I have a recipe: to work hard and, again, work hard!

Good means preserving life, promoting life, evil means destroying life, harming life.

The only solution for one to escape from a miserable existence is to be worthy of another person's trust.

If you live a shallow life, your soul suffers.

Knowledge means nothing, and deeds can bear fruit and bring about change only when they are stimulated by sacrifice.

The medicine man is successful for the same reason most of us are successful.

A fulfilled desire often brings disappointment, because only an expected joy is a true joy

Truth can only be truthful when it has a thought behind it.

True ethics begins where words cease to be used

We must all have an unusual duty: for life to pay with life.

Any action that goes against our inner "I" is a wound we inflict on our own soul.

Personal parable is not the main way to influence other people. This is simply the only way.

Only in love are we able to reach communion with God.

Love cannot be limited to a system of rules and regulations: commands, in love, are absolute.

My knowledge is pessimistic and my belief is optimistic.

We must become gentle ploughmen, but before we begin the work we must have hope.

We are born from other people's lives. And we have the ability to call other lives to life.

We must rise to the spirituality of ethics and to the ethics of spirituality.

There are many of us, but each of us dies of loneliness.

There are no action heroes, only heroes of abdication and suffering.

It is not out of kindness to another that I am gentle, peaceful, patient and kind, I am so because this behavior gives me deep self-affirmation.

You don't have to be an angel to become a saint.

There is no specific time for truth. The hour of truth - now and always.

There is no greater religion than the service of humanity. The highest credo is work for the common good.

Not a ray of sunshine is wasted, but the greenery it awakens from sleep needs time to germinate, and the sower will not always reap.

He who considers himself a Christian just because he goes to church is wrong.

Real optimism...consists of aspiring to a meaningful ideal...

Consistent kindness can work wonders. Just as the sun can melt ice, so kindness drives away misunderstanding, mistrust and enmity.

Indifference has always been the greatest enemy of morality.