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

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.

I’m so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!

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.

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

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

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.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

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

Any hand that I’ve shaken, any person that I met when I was Joe Blow, now that I’m this guy Kevin Hart, has come back. That’s why I treat everybody with respect. I’m always a nice pleasant guy to meet because when they come back to you, they remember.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

I don’t think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It’s lonely out here.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

Knowledge is true opinion.

If you are not being bullied all I would say – cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well – is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there’s someone in your class that maybe doesn’t have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

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

Winning – that’s the most important to me. It’s as simple as that.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

I can’t imagine what this place would be – I can’t imagine what the country would be – with Donald Trump as our president.

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

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

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

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

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

Ethiopia didn’t just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, ‚Would you take my son with you?‘ He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

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

People have me pinned as a shark or a predator in some way, and in no way am I that. I wouldn’t want to hurt anyone. I want to defend people. I want to help people.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

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

I never ask anyone else’s opinion. They don’t count.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

‚Nation‘ was one that I’d have killed myself if I hadn’t written it. It was absolutely important to me that I wrote it. It was good for my soul.

Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.

Trump has no sense of shame.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

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.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.

Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered… to feel she is the most important thing in someone’s world. Only a man can paint this picture.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

We need to, you know, restore people. 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.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

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.