Be kind and honest, and harmful poisons will turn sweet inside you.

The positive thinker see the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieve the impossible.

He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.

Have to and get to—both are choices. One is negative and one is positive. Choose the right one and it can change your life.

The obstacle in the path becomes that path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.

When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care anything about the trifling lies told by individuals?

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow eating agony of a lie is never lost.

I’m not perfect. And who knows how many times I’ve fallen short. We all fall short. That’s the amazing thing about the grace of God.

Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever.

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view requires to be faked.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

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.

Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

It makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch. . . .It’s sort of what we have instead of God.

Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.

When we practice loving kindness and compassion we are the first ones to profit.

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