Never underestimate the power of kindness, empathy, and compassion in your interactions with others.

After having lost their lives on this land they [enemy soldiers] have become our sons as well.

Mankind is a single body and each nation a part of that body. We must never say "What does it matter to me if some part of the world is ailing?" If there is such an illness, we must concern ourselves with it as though we were having that illness.

However much we may feel for the misery of someone close to us, we always act with some artificiality in their presence. We hold back from telling them everything we think, often because we do not genuinely mean what we say; or because we take a pleasure in their plight, thankful that we are not affected.

Indifference is dangerous, whether innocent or not.

There is so much indifference in the face of suffering. May we overcome indifference with concrete acts of charity.