I don’t like to see animals in pain. That was very uncomfortable to me. I don’t like factory farming. I’m not an advocate for the meat industry.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn’t anyone who doesn’t appreciate kindness and compassion.

I hope that people around the world will be as inspired as I am to step up and to speak out on behalf of girls around the world who struggle to go to school.

I try to be vegan… I really, really try. I don’t eat any red meat, and the whole animal thing really upsets me, so I’ve tried.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

What really raises one’s indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that’s the mercy you’re going to be receiving.

I’ve been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire career.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

I did this book ‚Harvest for Hope,‘ and I learned so much about food. And one thing I learned is that we have the guts not of a carnivore, but of an herbivore. Herbivore guts are very long because they have to get the last bit of nutrition out of leaves and things.

But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That’s what I strive to do, that’s what I pray to do every day.

When you are young, you cannot imagine being disabled. You imagine you would conquer it somehow. As I’ve got older, I can imagine it; I can see how life narrows in. I feel compassion for my mother now.

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‚I’m a representative.‘

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don’t do that, we really deserve the world we get.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.

In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.

As a Christian, you forgive, and you feed the hungry and clothe the naked, and you visit the sick and comfort the lonely. If I’m a true follower of my lord and saviour Jesus Christ, I got to do the things you’re supposed to be doing.

If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation’s promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

How can we help President Obama?

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

A faithful woman can become a devoted daughter of God – more concerned with being righteous than with being selfish, more anxious to exercise compassion than to exercise dominion, more committed to integrity than to notoriety. And she knows of her own infinite worth.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.

Standing in support of children is something we should all be able to get behind, regardless of party affiliation.

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

What we have found in this country, and maybe we’re more aware of it now, is one problem that we’ve had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.

I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change.

It’s okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.