A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.

Do you feel gloomy? Lift your eyes. Stand on your feet. Say a few words of appreciation and love to the lord. Be positive.

A man, to carry on a successful business, must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. A man can cultivate this faculty only by an appreciation for the finer things in life.

I have yet to find a man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full resources that are within thy reach.

May your troubles be less and your blessings be more.

We can secure other people’s approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies—it is the first law of nature.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

Friends accept you the way you are.

Every heart sings a song incomplete, until another heart whispers back.

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

A friend is as it were a second self.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more selective you become.

A kind word is like a spring day.

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

One drop of your kindness makes the ocean sweet.

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.

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.

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

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

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.

Religion is a great force—the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get a man through his own religion and not through yours.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.

But all my life through, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise.