Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

If you want others to be happy practice compassion. If you want to be happy practice compassion.

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

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time at all times who suffers harm done to others whose greatest passion is compassion whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

We can choose between the future and the past between reason and ignorance between true compassion and mere ideology.

When the people become involved in their government government becomes more accountable and our society is stronger more compassionate and better prepared for the challenges of the future.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others by means of love friendship indignation and compassion.