See the good in people and help them.

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.

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?

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

It is an overflowing love, which seeks nothing in return. Theologians would say that it is the love of God operating in the human heart. And when one rises to love on this level, he is able to love the person who does the evil deed, while hating the deed that the person does.