Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

If you contemplate the Golden Rule, it turns out to be an injunction to live by grace rather than by what you think other people deserve.

If you wish to live in peace and harmony with others, you must learn to discipline yourself in many ways.

A sweet soul will take you further than a sweet tongue.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character

I'm not denying their kindness," said the Rani. "But after all kindness isn't the only virtue.

And the two essential and indispensable things are first of all intelligence in the right most sense of that word and goodwill or the old fashion word charity/love, I mean these two things have to go hand in hand. Intelligence and knowledge without charity or goodwill would perhaps be inhuman and goodwill or charity undirected by intelligence or knowledge would be either impotent or misguided, the two have to go together.

Do not condemn the man that cannot think or act as fast as you can, because there was a time when you could not do things as well as you can today.

We should strive to treat each other with common Human Decency

To be fully human is perhaps why I'm Christian, because I see in the life of Jesus a way of being fully human.