The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

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.

The statesman’s duty is to bridge the gap between his nation’s experience and his vision.

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people’s throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

It’s that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so ‚don’t fuss, dear; get on with it.‘

My principles are more important than the money or my title.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

There’s people constantly asking you for something on set, so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you’re compassionate.

When you stand for something, you’ve got to stand for it all the way, not half way.

I am for people. I can’t help it.

I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

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

We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

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 thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that’s my religion.

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

Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone.

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.

When we’re looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter – for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.

Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

Love can do much, but duty more.

Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace.

Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

When you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same value as you in God’s eyes or even in just your eyes, then your life is forever changed; you see something that you can’t un-see.

I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinner table and talk to them about their mother who has cancer or their child who is struggling in school, and their fears about watching their lives go by, I think we’re all the same.

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

May we do good everywhere as we have opportunity, and results will not be wanting!

Respect the burden.

Infinite striving to be the best is man’s duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God’s hands.

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

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

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.

Instead of judging people, we need to pray.

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 spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast – which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others – then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.

No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.

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.

When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, ‚I don’t believe they meant to hurt me.‘ ‚Maybe they’re having a bad day or don’t feel well.‘ ‚They probably don’t even realize how they sound.‘

The ‚morality of compromise‘ sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don’t compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

My father always taught me that when you help other people, then God will give you double. And that’s what has really happened to me. When I have helped other people who are in need, God has helped me more.

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

If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be.

Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

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.