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

The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.

Look folks, we know who built this country and we know who is going to rebuild it. It’s you. Instead of vilifying you, we should be thanking you. We owe you.

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

To add value to others, one must first value others.

Every day is a gift from God, no matter how old we are.

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

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.

As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

I give thanks to God and to all the people in the U.K. who have supported me over the years.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

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.

I tell everybody, I get so much because I give so much. I give freely, I give all my time, give all my money, give all of my soul. I try to motivate people. I try to inspire them.

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

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

I never admire another’s fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

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

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

Thanks to my fans that have been with me from the beginning, I was able to sell out arenas on my own.

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

Not only do I think being nice and kind is easy but being kind, in my opinion, is important.

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

Never take anything for granted.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

The good man is the friend of all living things.

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

The greatest gift is the ability to forget – to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

If you’re not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your ‚today.‘ The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that’s yours in Christ. Don’t let it go.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

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

Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

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

Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I’m very, very grateful; it’s a fun job. It’s a luxury.

I try to live what I teach. A lot of things come against us in life, but we should try to find something to be grateful for, and see each day as a gift.

In my entire life, any time I’ve ever lost something, I’ve gotten something even better going around the next corner. It’s like one door closes and another door opens. As long as I can walk through the produce section in every grocery store in this country and eat the grapes that they’re going to throw away, I know I can be fine.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

God wants to bless us where we are.

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

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

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.‘

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

I’m grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

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

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn’t anyone who doesn’t appreciate kindness and compassion.

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.