It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn’t make me feel good at all.

From caring comes courage.

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?‘

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

The kindness that’s been shown to me, by doctors as well as my family and my friends, it’s really saved my life.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

There are folks who now know black families – like the Johnsons on ‚Black-ish‘ or the folks on ‚Modern Family.‘ They become part of who you are. You share their pains. You understand their fears. They make you laugh, and they change how you see the world.

If every man loves his mother, he’s going to treat the ladies right, with love and respect.

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

Listen with your eyes for feelings.

A saint is tolerant and is attentive to the pleadings of other human beings, not only to spoken messages but to unspoken messages as well.

I respect Chris Brown. I’d like to call myself a friend – I don’t know if I’m allowed to do that.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

I have such respect for ‚Democracy Now!‘

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

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

Don’t judge other people. For example, if you want God’s anointing to be on you for parenting, you need to be careful not to criticize other parents.

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

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

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy’s tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

For the people who ostensibly wish me well or are worried about my immortal soul, I say I take it kindly.

Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

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

The poorest people are the sweetest people.

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

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

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the people who are on the front line.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one’s experiences in common.

Some of the kids in school used to call my father a fake or a phony. That kind of thing brought on a few fights.

I’m not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they’re going through. I don’t know if that’s the healthiest thing, but it’s the truth.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Among physicists, I’m respected I hope.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.

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

We are all alike, on the inside.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o‘ the flatterer.

The passive aggressive arguer comes armed with tricky tactics. They cannot take the risk that they might be wrong: their self-esteem is too intertwined with their opinions. It is more important to affirm their rightness, and sense of superiority, than to arrive at the truth.

I’ve been to those places where it’s ‚poor, pitiful me.‘

Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.

I remember when I was younger, and in school, our teachers showed us films of plastic in the ocean, starving polar bears and so on. I cried through all the movies. My classmates were concerned when they watched the film, but when it stopped, they started thinking about other things. I couldn’t do that. Those pictures were stuck in my head.

Everybody likes a compliment.

If you can build a business up big enough, it’s respectable.

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

When I’m getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

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

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.