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

It’s hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I’m talking to them.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on the highest emotional level… Anytime I think about it, it makes me sadder than anything I can think of.

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

What nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast?

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

I can’t read the newspaper without crying. I’m easily affected by horrible events, you see.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

They might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that… it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

If you’re nice to me I’ll never write anything bad about you.

When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.

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

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

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‚What are you doing for others?‘

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

There are people who want to make men’s lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul.

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

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.

One thing I hope I’ll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn’t make me feel good at all.

One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

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?‘

Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

Power is a complicated word and can take many forms.

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.

Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

The term ‚globalisation‘ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.

The Medici created and destroyed me.

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.

Freedom is a man’s natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.