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.

See the good in people and help them.

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.

But we must not stop with the cultivation of a tough mind. The gospel also demands a tender heart. ... What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of toughmindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hardheartedness?