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

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

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What’s the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

I don’t believe in nepotism. I don’t much like the idea of parents who interfere.

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.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

My principles are more important than the money or my title.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.

If you wished to be loved, love.

It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

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

The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

I must be cruel, only to be kind.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

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

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

Nutrition is so important. It can’t be stressed enough.

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

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

I don’t watch it, but I know enough to comment on it.

We’re a blip in the existence of the universe, and we’re constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.

In my opinion, rankings are a very fickle measurement of one’s success and it is best to not get carried away by it.

It’s probably not an accident that the films that I care about happen to be about issues that matter to me, stories that I want to tell.

It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

What nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast?

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

Knowledge is true opinion.

Whatever the reviewers feel about ‚The Casual Vacancy‘, it is what I wanted it to be, and you can’t say fairer than that as a writer.

For those of you who do not know Him, choosing your eternal home is the most important decision you will ever make.

The truth of the matter is that Iran is a cancer.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

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

Children make your life important.

Everybody likes a compliment.

Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.

I have a heart of gold, but I’m really a marshmallow in my heart.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

I would rather drink weedkiller than support Obamacare.

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.

My doorman is more important to me than any head of any company. He keeps us safe.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

I see the world in black and white, and I don’t like compromising.