One of the things I’ve never been accused of is not caring about people.

You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.

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.

I look after people.

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.

Most of the time, I’m not even working; I’m just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.

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

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

It’s not about changing people; it’s sometimes about changing a situation. How can we build an even better situation for them?

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.

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

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that’s something that we should think about.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

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.

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

I’ve never been a jealous person, and I’ve never felt built up by someone else’s failure – that’s a cheap thrill.

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

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

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

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

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

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

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

Transforming yourself into a deep listener will not only prove more amusing as you open your mind to their mind, but you will gain the most invaluable lessons about human psychology.

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn’t be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

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

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

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.‘

The blessed of us must save the less of us. I’m blessed, and yeah, I’m planning to go to Heaven.

There are people in the world who aren’t necessarily Christians, but they’re just naturally nice people who do a lot for other people. Those people will almost always be prosperous people.

If someone decides they’re not going to be happy, it’s not your problem. You don’t have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.

I always think if you are asking somebody for something it is a good idea to give them something first.

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

Men exist for the sake of one another.

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.

The thing I really care about is the mission, making the world open.

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

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

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

Physical contact is a human necessity.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Our philosophy is that we care about people first.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

If you’re nice to me I’ll never write anything bad about you.