“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.” 

“It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved.”

The magic thing about home is that it feels good to leave, and it feels even better to come back.

“The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.”

“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.”

“Anything that costs your peace is too expensive”

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

“I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.” 

To the world, you are a mother, to your family you are the world.

“Any alleged right of one man, which necessitates the violation of the rights of another isn’t and can’t be a right.”

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

“We should love, not fall in love, because everything that falls, gets broken.”