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

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.

Now that I understand that I’m an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

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

If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? We shouldn’t marginalise people for this. They must be integrated into society.

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 have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

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.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

Social Security is based on a principle. It’s based on the principle that you care about other people. You care whether the widow across town, a disabled widow, is going to be able to have food to eat.

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

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

I like to give back.

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.

Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

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

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

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.

T stands for being nice. T stands for manners. T stands for being polite.

I fear that too many have sadly surrendered their agency to the adversary and are saying by their conduct, ‚I care more about satisfying my own desires than I do about bearing the Savior’s power to bless others.‘

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

None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers.

Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.

Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.

When you give up yourself, that’s when you will feel the true spirit of Christmas. And that’s giving that’s serving others and that’s when you feel fulfilled.

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

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.

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

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.

A saint serves others, knowing that the more one serves, the greater the opportunity for the Spirit to sanctify and purify.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: ‚What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.‘

Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I’ve got. Somebody’s got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain’t got this, somebody ain’t got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate.

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can’t wait for a feeling to motivate you.

I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

Any hand that I’ve shaken, any person that I met when I was Joe Blow, now that I’m this guy Kevin Hart, has come back. That’s why I treat everybody with respect. I’m always a nice pleasant guy to meet because when they come back to you, they remember.

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

Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.

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.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

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

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

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

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

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.

Ethiopia didn’t just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, ‚Would you take my son with you?‘ He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.

Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.