All the greatest things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honour; duty; mercy; hope.

I always knew that deep down in every human heart, there is mercy and generosity.

You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution.

Finally, that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacifick temper of the mind, which were the characteristicks of the divine Author of our blessed religion ; without an humble imitation of whose example, in these things, we can never hope to be a happy Nation.

But the real magic of the New Year is that it opens our hearts to empathy and trust, generosity and mercy.

As we have triumphed, so we may be merciful; as we are strong, so we can afford to be generous.