[Sophie]

"Compassion is not hard to come by when the heart is not filled with the cunning things of the mind. It is the mind with its demands and fears, its attachments and denials, its determinations and urges, that destroys love. And how difficult it is to be simple about all this! You don't need philosophies and doctrines to be gentle and kind."

"Compassion is action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure."

"If you have the choice between being right and being kind, choose being kind."