Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.

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