“It is compassion, the most gracious of virtues,Which moves the world.”
“The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.”
“Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.”
“In a world in which success was the only virtue, he had resigned himself to failure.”
“If a man is gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of the world.”
“Compassion is not a virtue -- it is a commitment. It's not something we have or don't have -- it's something we choose to practice.”