I always think if you are asking somebody for something it is a good idea to give them something first.

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

Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

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

That’s the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.

People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‚try to be a little kinder.‘

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn’t make me feel good at all.

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

I don’t like talking to celebrities.

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

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

Why is it you always meet people when you look your worst?

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

They might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

A true man hates no one.

If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows – pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music… That would be so much cheaper than bombs.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don’t do any good, but they don’t necessarily do any harm. It’s touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I’ve got my just desserts.

Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

The happiest people I know as a nation are the Burmese; their brightness and cheeriness are proverbial. Kindness to animals is one of their greatest ‚weaknesses‘; no Burmese will kill an animal, even if it is to put it out of pain.

Some people are jerks, and some people aren’t.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

If we don’t plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don’t have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don’t have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul.

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn’t anyone who doesn’t appreciate kindness and compassion.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.

The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.

I must be cruel, only to be kind.

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

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.

I have a heart of gold, but I’m really a marshmallow in my heart.

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

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

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

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

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

He that does good to another does good also to himself.

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

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.