For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

No man is born unto himself alone; who lives unto himself, he lives to none.

When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone.

I love people. I love my family, my children… but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.

Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

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.

If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.

Until you get comfortable with being alone, you’ll never know if you’re choosing someone out of love or loneliness.

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

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

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.

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

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

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh unless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.

One drop of your kindness makes the ocean sweet.

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

The most crucial use of knowledge and education is to understand the importance of developing a good heart.

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic. A man’s own observation, what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health.

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.