We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

-- Socrates

No one desires evil.

-- Socrates

Ethics is the ground of being of human community — the way of aidagara (betweenness) between person and person.

-- Tetsuro Watsuji

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

-- Confucius

Care for one another impartially; benefit one another in mutual exchange.

-- Mozi

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

-- John Stuart Mill