Albert Schweitzer

The most important thing in life is to live a life of service.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

The more I see, the more I am convinced that the world is in a bad state.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

The only way to be truly happy is to serve others.

Reverence for life is the highest principle of morality.

Man must cease to be a burden on the earth and become a blessing to it.

What we call love is the will to live in others.

The more deeply we look into nature, the more we recognize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life is sacred.

The world is in a bad state, but it will be saved by the young people.

The only ones among you who will be truly happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.

Wherever a man turns, he can find a good deed to do.

The future of civilization depends on our ability to understand and respect the diversity of cultures.

The great fault of all ethics hitherto has been that they believed themselves to have to deal only with the relations of man to man.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

The greatest need of our time is to clean out the unnecessary and the harmful, and to save the necessary and the useful.

The only thing that counts is the example we set.

We must all be a little mad to be able to live in this world.

The more we are concerned with the well-being of others, the happier we become.

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another.