“To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.”

“Don’t lose hope. When the sun goes down, the stars come out.”

“Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.”

“Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.”

“That is what compassion does. It challenges our assumptions, our sense of self-limitation, worthlessness, of not having a place in the world, our feelings of loneliness and estrangement. These are narrow, constrictive states of mind. As we develop compassion, our hearts open.”

“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.”

ON CHILDREN

“Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there.”

“Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.”

“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.”

A mistake that makes you humble is better than an achievement that makes you arrogant.

“If you want to fly give up everything that weighs you down.”