Compassion and caring are the ties that bind us together in mutual understanding and in the unified attempt to uncover the Divinity in each other. Compassion is the most gentle of all human virtues, for it is the outpouring of the Divine givingness through all. When the members of a community love one another that community is solid, prosperous, and happy. Nations are bound together by common interests and common affections. When the whole world realizes this truth, it will unite in thought and in action.
Love alone can solve the world's problems and bring about the day of universal peace.
You and I have certain people upon whom we lavish a great deal of affection. This is both natural and desirable. In a very real sense, everyone we meet is a part of our won family, to love and to enjoy. My purpose is that a feeling of goodwill shall passs from me to others. Today I embrace the world in this affection and desire so that good shall come to everyone.