Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

What nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast?

There’s a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.

The only big things I’ve purchased are my dad’s heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

Seven hundred thousand people who have dementia in this country are not heard. I’m fortunate; I can be heard. Regrettably, it’s amazing how people listen if you stand up in public and give away $1 million for research into the disease, as I have done.

Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.

I fear that too many have sadly surrendered their agency to the adversary and are saying by their conduct, ‚I care more about satisfying my own desires than I do about bearing the Savior’s power to bless others.‘

Philanthropy should be voluntary.

When we’re looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn’t feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It’s a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

‚Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

Stay humble and be concerned for the less fortunate.

I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it.

I like to give back.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.

Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy’s going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.

The Revlon Run/Walk effort to focus on women’s cancer has my wholehearted support and gratitude.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Over the course of my career in law enforcement, I have witnessed over and over again the selflessness and sacrifice of law enforcement who lay their lives on the line every day to protect people who they will never meet and people who will never know their names.

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

I’m generous. I give good tips. It’s just – the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don’t want anything. I’m not a consumer. I don’t crave objects.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

I don’t like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can’t put a dollar sign on.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

A good thing to remember is somebody’s got it a lot worse than we do.

If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? We shouldn’t marginalise people for this. They must be integrated into society.

My father always taught me that when you help other people, then God will give you double. And that’s what has really happened to me. When I have helped other people who are in need, God has helped me more.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

My mother always wanted to give back.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

My father worked for a children’s home called Dr. Barnardo’s Homes. They’re a charity.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.

I am for people. I can’t help it.

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don’t buy a single vote more than is necessary. I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay for a landslide.

Anyone who wants to be pope doesn’t care much for themselves, God doesn’t bless them. I didn’t want to be pope.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation’s promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.