Albert Schweitzer

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

There is much coldness among men because we do not dare to be as cordial as we really are.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

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

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

We ought all to make an effort to act on our first thoughts and let our unspoken gratitude find expression. Then there will be more sunshine in the world, and more power to work for what is good.

In the past we have tried to make a distinction between animals which we acknowledge have some value and other which, having none, can be liquidated when we wish. This standard must be abandoned. Everything that lives has value simply as a living thing, as one of the manifestations of the mystery that is life.

The demands of Jesus are difficult just because they require us to do something extraordinary. At the same time he asks us to regard these as something usual, ordinary.

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

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.

Who shall enumerate the many ways in which that costly piece of fixed capital, a human being , may be employed! More of him is wanted everywhere! Hunt, then, for some situation in which your humanity may be used.

It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else.

I see in him (Dr. Max Gerson) one of the most eminent medical geniuses in the history of medicine...he was greatly impeded by adverse political conditions.

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.

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.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

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.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.