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.

- Albert Schweitzer

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.

- Albert Schweitzer

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

- Albert Schweitzer

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.

- Albert Schweitzer

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

- Albert Schweitzer

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

- Albert Schweitzer

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

- Albert Schweitzer

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

- Albert Schweitzer

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

- Albert Schweitzer

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

- Albert Schweitzer

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.

- Albert Schweitzer

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.

- Albert Schweitzer

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

- Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

- Albert Schweitzer

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

- Albert Schweitzer

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.

- Albert Schweitzer

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

- Albert Schweitzer

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

- Albert Schweitzer

Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

- Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

- Albert Schweitzer