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

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

I love dogs, but dogs, you have to be in the country with dogs. I cannot walk a dog on the street.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

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.

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

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

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

You don’t have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

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

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

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.

A Christian who does not pray for those who govern is not a good Christian.

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

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn’t make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

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

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that’s middle-class morality.

No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.

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.

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

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

We just cannot worry about ourselves.

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.

I’ve got four dogs, and I just don’t do dog doo. I’m a diva when it comes to that.

There’s a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.

Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.

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.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

I learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren’t the only beings with personalities. What the chimps did was help me to persuade others.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I’m going to be alive, I want to be challenged – to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn’t an easy way, but it’s a rewarding way.

This morning I lay in the bathtub thinking how wonderful it would be if I had a dog like Rin Tin Tin. I’d call him Rin Tin Tin too, and I’d take him to school with me, where he could stay in the janitor’s room or by the bicycle racks when the weather was good.

I love pets, especially dogs.

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

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

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today – but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

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

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

I’ve seen a look in dogs‘ eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

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

Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

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.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.

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.‘