Cleverness is a gift; kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy-they're given, after all. Choices can be hard. You can seduce yourself with yourgifts if you're not careful, and if you do, it'll probably be to the detriment of your choices.

The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people.

The various features and aspects of human life, such as longevity, good health, success, happiness, and so forth, which we consider desirable, are all dependent on kindness and a good heart.

Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others that you would not have them do unto you.

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.

Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.