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

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

I care very deeply about the people at Tesla. I feel like I have a great debt to the people of Tesla who are making the company successful.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

I’ve been blessed with talents to play this game and been put on a stage to impact a lot of people. I don’t want to take that for granted.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush is a great thing in my life. It’s amazing. A great honor.

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

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.

‚Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, ‚I write for money.‘ Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely.

God has given us two hands – one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

The goal for me is always to have the opportunity to work in different genres. This is a great and exciting time in my career, where I can have the opportunity to work in different genres, and also I recognize there’s not a lot of actors who have that opportunity and I’m grateful for it.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

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

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

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.

The generous Critic fann’d the Poet’s fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

We need to, you know, restore people. We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that’s the mercy you’re going to be receiving.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

You might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.

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

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

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

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

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

The Tao teaches us to let go of things. Use the 80/20 rule. If you take all your clothes, you’ll find out that you only wear 20 percent of them. Take what you have and don’t use and circulate it. Give stuff to people who truly need it. After all, we come into this world with nothing; we leave this world with nothing.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

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

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

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.

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.

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

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that’s the mercy you’re going to be receiving.

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.

People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.

I love being American, and I love family. I love having a family, and I feel so blessed, and I feel like God gave me exactly what I wanted, so now I have to do the right thing in God’s eyes also. Just follow what God wants me to do.

I’m one of the luckiest people on earth.

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

So long as I’m Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you’ve served us – because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

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.

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.