A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

We’re all just a bunch of sinners, but we do the best we can.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

‚Suffering should not make us bitter people,‘ my mother once said, ‚it should make us better comforters.‘ Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they’ll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.

Let’s pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

The other day the President said, I know you’ve had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her – for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys.

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

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

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

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.

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

It is right to give every man his due.

After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.

The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.

We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality; we seem to be the most stupid, also.

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen – inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.

A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‚superlive,‘ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.

The dinosaurs aren’t remembered for much more than their bones. When humanity’s gone, what do we give to this little planet that we’re on, and what could we do collectively, removing the pride?

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

If you are not being bullied all I would say – cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well – is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there’s someone in your class that maybe doesn’t have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

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

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

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

In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress ‚suspects.‘

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

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

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy’s tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don’t have to be rich. You don’t have to be a genius. You don’t have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate.

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?

We’re all sinners. Everybody you meet all over the world is a sinner.

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

I’ve had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O’Connor told me, ‚Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you’ll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.‘

The kindness that’s been shown to me, by doctors as well as my family and my friends, it’s really saved my life.

He that does good to another does good also to himself.