I’m a pretty tough guy, you know. I’m a pretty hard man. I’ve got a lot of compassion, but I don’t waste time with people.

The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man’s new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

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

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

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.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends.

You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.

The American people have not become heartless.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

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

‚Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles – the oppression of tyranny – to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

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

I am a tough guy.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‚If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?‘ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‚If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?‘

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.

I am for people. I can’t help it.

Stay humble and be concerned for the less fortunate.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.

We do not judge the people we love.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

I feel like if you’re a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

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

The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

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

Whether a person is straight or gay, Republican, Democrat, good person, not a good person, they’re all welcome, because to me, church is a place you’re supposed to get healed and whole and loved.

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

You pity the fool because you don’t want to beat up a fool! You know, pity is between sorry and mercy. See, if you pity him, you know, you won’t have to beat him up. So that’s why I say fools, you gotta give another chance because they don’t know no better. That’s why I pity them!

The poorest people are the sweetest people.

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.

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

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.

If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? We shouldn’t marginalise people for this. They must be integrated into society.

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

My mother told me, ‚Son, nobody else but God knows.‘ And that’s what I’m about – reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That’s what I do.

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other’s well-being, is source of happiness.

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

Learning to live for others isn’t something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.

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.

The good man is the friend of all living things.

The happiest people I know as a nation are the Burmese; their brightness and cheeriness are proverbial. Kindness to animals is one of their greatest ‚weaknesses‘; no Burmese will kill an animal, even if it is to put it out of pain.

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.

A good thing to remember is somebody’s got it a lot worse than we do.

Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.