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Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.

Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that's when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down.

The environment around you shapes who you are. How you handle an emergency or how you react when someone is rude to you, that's you.

I actually think that the most efficacious way of making a difference is to lead by example, and doing random acts of kindness is setting a very good example of how to behave in the world.

I always think you have to show a degree of humanity and sensitivity when you're dealing with people in extreme circumstances.

I have made a living off the way I look, and I have really learnt to accept myself for being unusual.

Now I am also friendly with people who are not so nice to me. From what I've learnt, it's nice to be friendly. It's nice to make people feel good about themselves.

I treat people the way I want to be treated, which makes me odd.

I think the associations people have with kindness are often things like meekness and sweetness and maybe sickly sweetness; whereas I do think of kindness as a force, as a power.

I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.