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

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

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.‘

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

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

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

What one fool can understand, another can.

I am for people. I can’t help it.

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people’s throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.

Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy’s tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

What I have in common with the character in ‚Truman‘ is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

If you cry over a guy, then your friends can’t date him. It can’t even be considered.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

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

Real living is living for others.

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

As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need.

My daughter doesn’t even get my humor. She’s like, ‚Um, no. I don’t get it, Dad. Mmm, no, not that one, Dad.‘

Don’t throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.

See things from the boy’s point of view.

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

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.

I’m not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they’re going through. I don’t know if that’s the healthiest thing, but it’s the truth.

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

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

What’s important for my daughter to know is that… if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. And, of course, there are Christian monks and nuns who already use Buddhist methods in order to develop their devotion, compassion, and ability to forgive.

The less you know, the more you believe.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

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.

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

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

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.

That’s the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.

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

Occasionally I’ve seen children become heavy-handed and insensitive when dealing with their aging parents, and it only caused resentment and hard feelings.

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

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.

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

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely – the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears – when you give your whole attention to it.

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.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

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

I just think that trusting God means we’re going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we’re never going to understand them all.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

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

I just don’t like killing creatures.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

I’m a pretty tough guy, you know. I’m a pretty hard man. I’ve got a lot of compassion, but I don’t waste time with people.