She thought of herself, "I wish the creatures wouldn't be so easily offended!

Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society.

I think we live in a pluralistic society where we have to get along with each other and show common grace to each other.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

If you meet someone whose soul is not aligned with yours, send them love and move along.

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.

The truly good is he who is one with all those who are deemed bad.

When you move into a spiritual approach to life you begin to see yourself as connected to everyone and everything, and competition is replaced by something called cooperation.

human community life cannot long endure on a basis of crude force, brutality, terror, and hate. Only understanding for our neighbors, justice in our dealings, and willingness to help our fellow men can give human society permanence and assure security for the individual.

When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.

So long as it remains out of touch with the rest of the world, an ideal society can be a viable society.