You will never reach higher ground if you are aways pushing others down.

I've learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind.

We must each lead a way of life with self-awareness and compassion, to do as much as we can. Then, whatever happens we will have no regrets.

My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.

To be able to practice five things everywhere under the heaven constitutes perfect virtue. . . gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.

If you develop a pure and sincere motivation, in you are motivated by a wish to help on the basis of kindness, compassion, and respect, then you can carry on any kind of work, in any field, and function more effectively.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

No house should ever be on any hill or on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging to it, so hill and house could live together each the happier for the other.

You don't have to be big or well known to be great.

I could not understand how any man could be so brutalized as to claim the right to dispose of the lives of others, nor how any man could be so lacking in self-esteem as to grant to others the right to dispose of his life.

There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.

If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your own integrity. If you need a witness, be your own.