On Kindness: I'm posting a collection of quotes from people who should really need no introduction. These people support kindness.

When you have saints, geniuses, lumninaries, intellectuals and other assorted titans going on the record promoting kindness, I have to ask myself if it's maybe dangerous not to be kind! Please use them and share them, and your kindness, with others.

Great persons are able to do great kindnesses. --Miguel de Cervantes

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.--Washington Irving

No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves. --Amelia Earhart

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate. --Albert Schweitzer

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force. Pubilius Syrus

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile. Mother Theresa

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the and the blind can see. Mark Twain

Be kind to unkind people - they need it the most. Ashleigh Brilliant

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses. Confucious

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. Leo Buscalia

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle. Plato

Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end. Scott Adams

The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life. William Wordsworth

The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard. Henry David Thoreau

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels. Pearl Buck

No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted. --Aesop

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. --Mother Teresa

You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Kindness in words creates confidence, kindness in thinking creates profoundness, kindness in feeling creates love. Lao Tzu

When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. Dalai Lama

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. Dalai Lama

Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care of your garden And keep out the weeds, Fill it with sunshine Kind words and kind deeds. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder. Aldous Huxley

Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together. Goethe

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. George Washington Carver

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible. Albert Einstein

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers. Tennessee Williams

One of the basic points is kindness. With kindness, with love and compassion, with this feeling that is the essence of brotherhood, sisterhood, one will have inner peace. Dalai Lama

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
Kindness it is that brings forth kindness always. Sophocles

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? Jean Jacques Rousseau

Believe nothing merely because you have been told it...Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide. Buddha

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others? Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. Plato (428 - 347 BC)