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

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

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

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.

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity – the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

My mother was a full-time mother. She didn’t have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences… everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving – she’s better than me.

I am for people. I can’t help it.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‚What are you doing for others?‘

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.

We just cannot worry about ourselves.

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.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

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.

Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on the highest emotional level… Anytime I think about it, it makes me sadder than anything I can think of.

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.

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

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

I feel like if you’re a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.

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

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

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

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

I’ve been searching for ways to heal myself, and I’ve found that kindness is the best way.

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

Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn’t be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.

There are people in the world who aren’t necessarily Christians, but they’re just naturally nice people who do a lot for other people. Those people will almost always be prosperous people.

Prince Charles is definitely my hero; he uses his position to do only good in this world.

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

When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It’s inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

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

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

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

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

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Every loss of life is terrible.

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.

I think you have a moral responsibility when you’ve been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.

Some people are jerks, and some people aren’t.

Real living is living for others.

First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her – for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.

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.

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

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.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

I got quite annoyed after the Haiti earthquake. A baby was taken from the wreckage and people said it was a miracle. It would have been a miracle had God stopped the earthquake. More wonderful was that a load of evolved monkeys got together to save the life of a child that wasn’t theirs.

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.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.