“Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.”

“The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater burden can be borne by an individual than to know no one cares or understands.”

“No one's head aches when he is comforting another.”

“No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another.”

“Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.”

“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. ”

“To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come, is quite possibly one of the most powerful "magic skills" that human beings are capable of. It has been noted by almost every ancient wisdom tradition.”

“The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.”

“It is better to be faithful than famous.”

“The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love, do not require coupons.”

“We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.”

“Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. ”

“ 'Stay' is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. ”

“There is nothing we like to see so much as the gleam of pleasure in a person's eye when he feels that we have sympathized with him, understood him. At these moments something fine and spiritual passes between two friends. These are the moments worth living. ”

“All the so-called "secrets of success" will not work unless you do.”

“I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. ”

“Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.”

“Strive to be first: first to nod, first to smile, first to compliment, and first to forgive.”

“Open your heart - open it wide; someone is standing outside.”

“Were it not for hope the heart would break.”

“We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”

“The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.”

“Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength.”

“Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate. ”

“That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved. ”

“Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.”

“Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.”

“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”

“No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.”

“Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.”

“In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.”

“Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.”

“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”