Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.

Nothing,' wrote Tolstoy, 'can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.

Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.

Politeness is the most acceptable hypocrisy

Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.

Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.