Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

What I do is prepare myself until I know I can do what I have to do.

When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'no' to yourself.

Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would.

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

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

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

The people turn to a benevolent rule as water flows downwards, and as wild beasts fly to the wilderness.

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

I have to face life with a newly found passion. I must rediscover the irresistible will to learn, to live and to love.

And God said love your enemy and I obeyed him and loved myself.

I’m fascinated with myself and love hearing the sound of my own voice. I’d like to hear what I have to say. A lot of people don’t like being alone because they truly don’t like themselves, but I love me.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

The truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind.

I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.