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

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

Where thou art, that is home.

Many people look at me and think they know me but they don’t at all. This is the real me. I am a humble person, a feeling person. A person who cares about others, who wants to help others.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

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

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.

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

All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race – racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic – what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race.

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

My home is in Heaven. I’m just traveling through this world.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

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

I have ‚Parents‘ magazine in my home.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

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.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

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

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

A saint is tolerant and is attentive to the pleadings of other human beings, not only to spoken messages but to unspoken messages as well.

But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That’s what I strive to do, that’s what I pray to do every day.

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

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

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.

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

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

If you wished to be loved, love.

I used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

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.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

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.

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

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

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

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.

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.

When I do have free time, I spend it with friends, or I spend it at home writing or making something.

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.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

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

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

They need help, and we have helped, and we are here to help. And we are helping, and we’re going to continue to help.

Compliment three people every day.

When you play sports like tennis, you’re alone, and that’s a good school for life, but it’s also a good school for life to bring your best and make those around you better, too – helping others in difficult moments.

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.

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.‘

One of the things I love most about being at home is that I’m comfortable there. And since we are the home of Christ, we need to make sure He’s comfortable in us.

My father wasn’t perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.

I’m doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.

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

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

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