Just as a mother would protect with her life her own son, her only son, so one should cultivate an unbounded mind towards all beings, and loving-kindness towards all the world.

In whom there is no sympathy for living beings: know him as an outcast.

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.

The openness of our hearts and minds can be measured by how wide we draw the circle of what we call family.

If I can do just one tenth of the good Michael Jackson did for others, I can really make a difference in this world.

See the good in people and help them.