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

We need to, you know, restore people. We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that’s the mercy you’re going to be receiving.

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

Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen – inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

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.

Giving is just one way of expressing that God has been good to you and will continue to do so through your being good to others.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

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

We’re a blip in the existence of the universe, and we’re constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn’t give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn’t seem right.

It’s amazing if you just listen to people. They tell you all the time things that you can do for them, without even realizing what they’re doing. I’ve learned to take notice of those things and if it’s something that I feel God wants me to do, then I try to do that to add joy to their life.

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.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

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

Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It’s for children and families. Not for people like me.

All missionaries, younger and older, serve with the sole hope of making life better for other people.

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.

The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

The good man is the friend of all living things.

Peace begins with a smile.

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.

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

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

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

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

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

When the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I’m so happy I did a nice thing.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.

We are not cisterns made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing.

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

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

The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‚What are you doing for others?‘

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.

If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy’s tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

I am the most helpful and open up doors for everyone and I like to share.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.

I have a big gay and lesbian following and they’ve been very loyal and kind to me.

I like gifts. I like to give them and I like to get them.

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.

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.

My faith was tested like Job. That’s the message I try to tell other people: just because you believe in God, serve God, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, people gotta realize, it don’t mean things not gonna happen to you.

When I cook for my family on Christmas, I make feijoada, a South American dish of roasted and smoked meats like ham, pork, beef, lamb, and bacon – all served with black beans and rice. It’s festive but different.

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

Not only do I think being nice and kind is easy but being kind, in my opinion, is important.

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

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.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.