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

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

It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

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

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.

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.

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

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

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.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

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

Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

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.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‚What’s in it for me?‘

Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.

You never make fun of anybody with a club foot or a withered arm, but it’s open season on anybody who stutters.

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‚try to be a little kinder.‘

I gave ‚em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I’d have done the same thing.

My mother always wanted to give back.

Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

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.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

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

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles – the oppression of tyranny – to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can’t put a dollar sign on.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.

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

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.

Jesus never mistreated anyone just because they mistreated Him. He confronted them in a spirit of gentleness and then continued to love them.

Peace begins with a smile.

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

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

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

Our greatness has always come from people who expect nothing and take nothing for granted – folks who work hard for what they have, then reach back and help others after them.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.

My mother told me, ‚Son, nobody else but God knows.‘ And that’s what I’m about – reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That’s what I do.

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

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

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.

My father always taught me that when you help other people, then God will give you double. And that’s what has really happened to me. When I have helped other people who are in need, God has helped me more.

God puts people in our lives on purpose so we can help them succeed and help them become all He created them to be. Most people will not reach their full potential without somebody else believing in them.

If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It’s what you learn.

Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.