Today in all too many Northern communities a sort of quasi-liberalism prevails, so bent on seeing all sides that it fails to become dedicated to any side. It is so objectively analytical that it is not subjectively committed.

Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?

The surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

It is no longer sufficient to love others as himself and to do as much for them as he would do for himself; rather, a repugnance arises in him… towards the will-to-live, towards the core and essence of that world recognized as filled with misery.

these people would indeed only be concerned for themselves, for their egoism, just like the bandit, from whom they are distinguished only by the absurdity of their means.

It's a law of survival, isn't it?—to seek the best. I didn't come for your sake. I came for mine.

The egotist in the absolute sense is not the man who sacrifices others. He is the man who stands above the need of using others in any manner. He does not function through them. He is not concerned with them in any primary matter. Not in his aim, not in his motive, not in his thinking, not in his desires, not in the source of his energy. He does not exist for any other man—and he asks no other man to exist for him.

If ever the pleasure of one has to be bought by the pain of the other, there better be no trade at all. A trade by which one gains and the other loses is a fraud.

Helping yourself is common sense, helping others is virtue, helping yourself and others is enlightenment.

To love is to will the good of the other.

An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.

Lord, teach us to step outside ourselves. Teach us to go out into the streets and manifest your love.