A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

You never make fun of anybody with a club foot or a withered arm, but it’s open season on anybody who stutters.

If you’re nice to me I’ll never write anything bad about you.

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.

I was never focused on me, me, me all the time. I was always focused on somebody else.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

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.

As a Christian, you forgive, and you feed the hungry and clothe the naked, and you visit the sick and comfort the lonely. If I’m a true follower of my lord and saviour Jesus Christ, I got to do the things you’re supposed to be doing.

I just don’t like killing creatures.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

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

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

If you wished to be loved, love.

My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.

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

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

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

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.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

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

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

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

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.

I don’t want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve never met. I want to go on living even after my death!

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

We have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thoughts according to our capacity and sanctity. Believers take the same view of matters as Jesus does; that which pleases Him pleases them, and that which grieves His grieves them also.

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

The blessed of us must save the less of us. I’m blessed, and yeah, I’m planning to go to Heaven.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

He who has felt his own ruin will not imagine the case of any to be hopeless; nor will he think them too fallen to be worthy his regard.

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.

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.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

I have no private interest in the reception of my inventions by the world, having never made, nor proposed to make, the least profit by any of them.

If you give, you will be blessed.

Many of my fans often tell me that they listen to my songs to get through things. And therefore, obviously, I hope that they can picture being in a place where things are better… I hope my songs can bring people to a calm place.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

It’s hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I’m talking to them.

I’ve been to those places where it’s ‚poor, pitiful me.‘

There’s people constantly asking you for something on set, so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you’re compassionate.

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I’m a human being, too. And I’m on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

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

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

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.

It’s that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so ‚don’t fuss, dear; get on with it.‘

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

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.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

It’s presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‚If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?‘ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‚If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?‘