My mother always wanted to give back.

When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn’t have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.

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

T stands for being nice. T stands for manners. T stands for being polite.

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.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody’s spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.

If I hadn’t given my money away, I’d have had more than anyone else on the planet.

I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.

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

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

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.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

My mother was a very wonderful woman. When she and my dad divorced, she moved to California and worked two jobs in the cannery at night and as a waitress during the day. But she saved enough money to establish a restaurant.

The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.

Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.

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

There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn’t greedy. It was mine, my girl’s, my mom’s. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we’re very modest. But that’s not greedy. That’s nice, right?

Never elated when someone’s oppressed, never dejected when another one’s blessed.

The good man is the friend of all living things.

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.‘

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

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

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.

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

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

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

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

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

I have a big gay and lesbian following and they’ve been very loyal and kind to me.

You may be rich, but there is one thing you can’t afford – that is, if you are a good sort – you can’t afford to spend money on your own luxuries while there are people around you wanting the necessaries of life.

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.

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

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.

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

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

Giving is true having.

People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.

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

My mother had bought a sewing machine for me. When I went away to college, she gave me a sewing machine, a typewriter and a suitcase, and my mother made $17 a week working as a maid 12 hours a day, and she did that for me.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.

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