"The family, the state, the entire world: they are all aggregations of individuals, and if each individual simply lived and acted according to pure-hearted kindness – that is, with a spirit of independence and freedom, the will to help the weak, and caring for one’s neighbor – we would all be able to live a peaceful and perfect collective life. We human beings should develop our spirit of independence and solidarity and fight against those who oppose this, even at the risk of our own lives."

"I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again."

"It might not seem like much, but what most people don't get is that there's a world of difference between not being cruel and being kind."

"Their cause I plead — plead it in heart and mind; A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind."

"Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning."

"The ideals that have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. Without the sense of kinship with men of like mind, without the occupation with the objective world, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific endeavours, life would have seemed empty to me. The trite objects of human efforts - possessions, outward success, luxury - have always seemed to me contemptible."

"Kindness by secret sympathy is tied; For noble souls in nature are allied."

"So my heart advice will be to really be kind-hearted, to be a good hearted person. Whether you are Buddhist or not – there is really no need for me to convince anyone to become a Buddhist. If your mind is very pure and always has positive thinking, this is good – try not to ever go into the side of negative thinking! For example, if you find that someone looks at you and you think “Do they mean something bad to me? Do they think something bad about me?” Don’t even go into that! Just smile back. Just be pure. As pure as you can. Your heart should be pure and really open to everyone. So smile back at people that you think might not like you. This is something that you have, that’s possible. We can all totally be a kind hearted person with positive thinking and pure heart. Everyone is able to do that, whether you are Buddhist or not. This is my heart advice.""

"Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindnesses and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart, and secure comfort."

"He never raised his voice. That was the worst thing — the fury of the Time Lord. And then we discovered why — why this Doctor, who had fought with gods and demons, why he had run away from us and hidden... He was being kind."

"Sed tamen difficile dictu est, quantopere conciliat animos hominum comitas affabilitasque sermonis."

"You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone."

"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."

"I would help others out of a fellow-feeling."

"The style of kindness has changed."

"Charlie and I never will operate Berkshire in a manner that depends on the kindness of strangers – or even that of friends who may be facing liquidity problems of their own."

"KINDNESS, n. A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction."

"Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?"

"Both man and womankind belie their nature When they are not kind."

"Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn."

"Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end."

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."

"O, white innocence, That thou shouldst wear the mask of guilt to hide Thine awful and serenest countenance From those who know thee not!"

"I doubt not then but innocence shall make False accusation blush, and tyranny Tremble at patience."

"We were as twinn'd lambs that did frisk i' the sun, And bleat the one at the other; what we chang'd Was innocence for innocence; we knew not The doctrine of ill-doing, nor dream'd That any did."

"Hence, bashful cunning! And prompt me, plain and holy innocence!"

"O, take the sense, sweet, of my innocence, Love takes the meaning in love's conference."

"Quam angusta innocentia est, ad legem bonum esse."

"Mais l'innocence enfin n'a rien à redouter."

"He's armed without that's innocent within."

"What can innocence hope for, When such as sit her judges are corrupted!"

"On devient innocent quand on est malheureux."

"An age that melts with unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away."

"As innocent as a new-laid egg."

"O mon Dieu, conserve-moi innocente, donne la grandeur aux autres! O God, keep me innocent; make others great!"

"E'en drunken Andrew felt the blow That innocence can give, When its resistless accents flow To bid affection live."

"To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower: Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour."

"A story of innocence in a world of ignorance."

"Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors."

"Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities."

""Innocent people"? Nonsense! There's no such thing as an innocent person. We've all got a blemish or two in our hearts."

"Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only. It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence."

"I want to assure you that regardless of your circumstances, age, or sex, you can indeed start over, re-arousing from within yourself those earlier, more innocent expectations, feelings and beliefs. It is much better if you can imagine this endeavor more in the light of children’s play, in fact, rather than think of it as a deadly serious adult pursuit."

"Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness — that means cynically and with innocence."

"Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary."

"Innocence once lost, is lost forever."

"I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves."

"That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end."

"In vain do they think themselves innocent who appropriate to their own use alone those goods which God gave in common; by not giving to others that which they themselves receive, they become homicides and murderers, inasmuch as in keeping for themselves those things which would alleviate the sufferings of the poor, we may say that every day they cause the death of as many persons as they might have fed and did not. When, therefore, we offer the means of living to the indigent, we do not give them anything of ours, but that which of right belongs to them. It is less a work of mercy which we perform than the payment of a debt."