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

Real charity is giving from the heart without taking credit.

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

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

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

Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.