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

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

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

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

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

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

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

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

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 never ceases to amaze me: We all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.

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.

I have to face life with a newly found passion. I must rediscover the irresistible will to learn, to live and to love.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.

From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both: but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.

To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl of be found in the dark folds of life.

One beautiful heart is better than a thousand beautiful faces.

One love, one heart, one destiny.

When you seek love with all your heart you shall find its echo in the universe.