The hand that gives is also the one that receives.

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

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

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

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

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.

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

You cannot do kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

Without properly kept accounts it is impossible to maintain truth in its pristine purity.

No problem is so deep that it cannot be overcome, given the will of all parties, through discussion and negotiation rather than force and violence.

My experience has shown me that we win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

Wherever there is injustice, war, discrimination against women, gays and the disadvantaged, I did my best to show up and exert moral persuasion.

One who believes in himself has no need to convince others.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot.