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

If you give, you will be blessed.

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

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

When I’m home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we’re not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry.

Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn’t be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.

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

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits.

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.

There’s nothing more comfortable or leisurely than having a pair of Ugg slippers on in the house.

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

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

If every man loves his mother, he’s going to treat the ladies right, with love and respect.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

I have much more support than most women around this world, and I have the financial means to have a home and help with care and food.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

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.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

One of the things I’ve never been accused of is not caring about people.

No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do – eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other… and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!

The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.

If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. I will always be here. I’m still working out at my old high school.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‚What’s in it for me?‘

The funny thing is people won’t let me pay for things. I’ll be in a restaurant and the manager will say, ‚Oh no, it’s on the house.‘

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

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.

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.

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

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

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 people meet me, they say that I’m really kind – contrary to a lot of my music.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

It’s amazing to me the number of people who will volunteer to help at church but won’t lift a finger to help at home!

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.

In our home there was always prayer – aloud, proud and unapologetic.

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

Peace begins with a smile.

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

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

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

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I’m taking with me when I go.

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

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

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?‘

Women fight for democracy and engage in the world. But they shouldn’t try and be copying men and be masculine; they should anchor on the home and build on those fundamentals.

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