If you are not being bullied all I would say – cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well – is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there’s someone in your class that maybe doesn’t have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.

The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

‚Suffering should not make us bitter people,‘ my mother once said, ‚it should make us better comforters.‘ Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they’ll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

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

It is fun to be in the same decade with you.

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.

I’m very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks.

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Here in America, we don’t let our differences tear us apart. Not here. Because we know that our greatness comes from when we appreciate each other’s strengths, when we learn from each other, when we lean on each other, because in this country, it’s never been each person for themselves. No, we’re all in this together. We always have been.

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

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don’t think it’s intelligent, and it’s not sane. So why would you want to support it?

Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

Feeling like you’re respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.

I’m going to try to unite all Americans.

I’m a people pleaser. I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse.

The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.

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

It’s not about changing people; it’s sometimes about changing a situation. How can we build an even better situation for them?

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

All information belongs to everybody all the time. It should be available. It should be accessible to the child, to the woman, to the man, to the old person, to the semiliterate, to the presidents of universities, to everyone. It should be open.

Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.

As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.

What really raises one’s indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.

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

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

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.

I see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together: black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with disabilities, all pledging allegiance under the same proud flag to this big, bold country that we love. That’s what I see. That’s the America I know!

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

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

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

The pressure on young chefs today is far greater than ever before in terms of social skills, marketing skills, cooking skills, personality and, more importantly, delivering on the plate. So you need to be strong. Physically fit. So my chefs get weighed every time they come into the kitchen.

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

We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there’s enough room for all of us to succeed.

I don’t have many friends; I’m very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated, and I’ve never been really close to anyone.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

God is patient with us to become the God’s children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

At the end of the day, your fans are the people who support you in and out. And their opinions matter.

Won’t it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

I personally have always been in favor of people who are gay being permitted to marry legally – and I still feel that way.

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

See things from the boy’s point of view.

Don’t judge other people. For example, if you want God’s anointing to be on you for parenting, you need to be careful not to criticize other parents.

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

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

What we have found in this country, and maybe we’re more aware of it now, is one problem that we’ve had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

It’s so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.