Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you.

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg crackles as if she had laid an asteroid.

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarters, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

One drop of your kindness makes the ocean sweet.

Benevolence is man’s mind, and righteousness is man’s path.

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.

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

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

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