Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

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.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, ‚I write for money.‘ Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely.

What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.

Peace begins with a smile.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

I’m a pretty tough guy, you know. I’m a pretty hard man. I’ve got a lot of compassion, but I don’t waste time with people.

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

You give before you get.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.

Practice radical humility. Take no credit for your talents, intellectual abilities, aptitudes, or proficiencies. Be in a state of awe and bewilderment.

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

People have me pinned as a shark or a predator in some way, and in no way am I that. I wouldn’t want to hurt anyone. I want to defend people. I want to help people.

I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

The other day the President said, I know you’ve had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

I have to live for others and not for myself: that’s middle-class morality.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

My belief is that we were put into this world of wonders and beauty with a special ability to appreciate them, in some cases to have the fun of taking a hand in developing them, and also in being able to help other people instead of overreaching them and, through it all, to enjoy life – that is, to be happy.

I’m no longer just a candidate. I’m the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn’t return. I’ve shared the pain of families who’ve lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who’ve lost their jobs.

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

Giving is true having.

Money doesn’t mean anything to me. I’ve made a lot of money, but I want to enjoy life and not stress myself building my bank account. I give lots away and live simply, mostly out of a suitcase in hotels. We all know that good health is much more important.

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

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.

If you wished to be loved, love.

The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.

I bet taxpayers remember providing more than $812 billion to Citigroup and Bank of America, two Wall Street banks, in 2009 to bail them out during the 2008 financial crisis. Taxpayers remember that generosity; big banks evidently don’t.

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other’s well-being, is source of happiness.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

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

The Hindus are some of the nicest people you’ll ever meet.

Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.

Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

My mother always wanted to give back.

I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinner table and talk to them about their mother who has cancer or their child who is struggling in school, and their fears about watching their lives go by, I think we’re all the same.

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.