It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

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

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

I think ‚Dirty Harry‘ was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

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

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

The good man is the friend of all living things.

What I remember as a child is that other kids didn’t care about suffering. I always did.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don’t have to be rich. You don’t have to be a genius. You don’t have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate.

I feel like I write so that people can think of it as theirs. If my song is exactly about your life right now, then it is – I don’t even want to say that it’s mine, because it’s yours.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

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

My son has died of AIDS.

I’ve been a huge fan of Chris Martin forever; it’d be awesome to work with him. He’s really kind, and he’s been really encouraging when we’ve met.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another.

If you want to reach the top, don’t run over others. Likely, the only way you’ll reach the top is to be carried there by others.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

What we have found in this country, and maybe we’re more aware of it now, is one problem that we’ve had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: ‚What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.‘

Preparation for a mission is important. A mission is a voluntary act of service to God and humankind. Missionaries support that privilege with their personal savings. Parents, families, friends, and donors to the General Missionary Fund may also assist.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

We are not cisterns made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

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

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

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I’m special, but honestly, I still don’t get it.

I admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and organisational function – that’s important, and fine, and I support it.

I’m very sensitive. I remember, as a kid at school, if someone in the classroom was sad or angry, it could have a great impact on me.

If I inspire you, pay for it, period.

The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

When I talk to kids, I’m really listening. When I do that, we have a little bit of a bigger connection than me being Kendrick Lamar and you being a student. It’s almost like we’re friends. Because a friend listens.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I’ve never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line’s always been really blurred for me. I’ll hang out with them after the show. I’ll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I’ll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

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.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.

Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

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.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

The Qataris have cut off support for the most extreme elements of terrorist organizations.

The fact is that when you do something from your heart, you leave a heart print.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That’s one of the great feelings – to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.

Let’s be very clear: Strong men – men who are truly role models – don’t need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful. People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.