It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

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.

When the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I’m so happy I did a nice thing.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

I fear that too many have sadly surrendered their agency to the adversary and are saying by their conduct, ‚I care more about satisfying my own desires than I do about bearing the Savior’s power to bless others.‘

Real living is living for others.

Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim’s sympathies.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

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.

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.

Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

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.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

It’s amazing if you just listen to people. They tell you all the time things that you can do for them, without even realizing what they’re doing. I’ve learned to take notice of those things and if it’s something that I feel God wants me to do, then I try to do that to add joy to their life.

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

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

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.

Anyone who wants to be pope doesn’t care much for themselves, God doesn’t bless them. I didn’t want to be pope.

Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I’ve got. Somebody’s got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain’t got this, somebody ain’t got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate.

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy – the one that’s absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‚If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?‘ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‚If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?‘

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

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

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

The Hindus are some of the nicest people you’ll ever meet.

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.

He chose to honor us with His priesthood. So we honor Him by honoring His priesthood – both its power and those who bear it.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

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

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

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.

We can approach God’s throne with boldness because we are confident in the power of what Jesus accomplished for us at the cross.

People’s blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

I’m doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.