Nushrat Bharucha Quotes

You don't need a religious background to strive for something good, for genuine compassion and love for others.

Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it.

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.

I do want to play characters that have redeeming qualities, that are likable, for sure, and I have in the past, and I will again.

When I was younger, I was impressed by those who were educated, accomplished, successful, and applauded by the world. But over the years, I have come to the realization that I am far more impressed by those wonderful and blessed souls who are truly good and without guile.

You can know a person is a good person or a bad person by who they are, not by what they look like.

A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.

As long as I'm a good person and I do things from the heart, that's all that matters.

It's such a challenge to play a good guy - it's hard to be believable.

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.

At the end of the day, I'm not some evil guy.

You must never lose that touch of childishness. You need it if you wish to write for children, if you wish to understand the heart of a child. Children are good, you see. And they expect good.

I think the most that I've learned has been, how do I put this? The innate goodness inside of all of us.

Our everyday cares, making a living, the crazy rat race of life, often make us forget the value of a good deed. Thus, the goodness that exists within each and every one of us is covered with layer upon layer of indifference and unawareness. In fact, we almost have to be reminded of the fact that goodness is there inside us.

Should our party by led by someone who boasts of a hard heart?

I believe people are wonderful. The vast majority of people have never hurt anybody in their lives.

If you believe that people are basically good, and you remove obstacles, then they'll do the right thing by each other.

My beautiful, selfless sister Manuela Testolini-Benet continues to inspire me to be a better woman. Always thinking of others, always doing God's work.

Playing a villain would be great.

As a species, I think if we could be half as good as dogs, I think the world would be a much better place.

He was a patient man, a kind man, a man who cared about animals and human beings, all qualities not to be devalued, but James Herriot was not a saint. I tried so hard to play against some of the scripts that implied that he was a saint, but I don't think I was always altogether successful.

Love is that which exists to do good, not merely to get good.