Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.

The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place.

Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It’s what you learn.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

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.

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.

They might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.

The notion that we have even one single veteran living on the streets should be just considered a travesty to all of us.

The Hindus are some of the nicest people you’ll ever meet.

If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don’t regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.

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

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

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

We have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thoughts according to our capacity and sanctity. Believers take the same view of matters as Jesus does; that which pleases Him pleases them, and that which grieves His grieves them also.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.

It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people’s throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

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.

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.

You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.

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.

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.

It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.

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

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that’s really the essence of the Christian faith.

I feel like if you’re a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.

It’s hard to practice compassion when we’re struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

Instead of judging people, we need to pray.

My father always taught me that when you help other people, then God will give you double. And that’s what has really happened to me. When I have helped other people who are in need, God has helped me more.

I’ve been a huge fan of Chris Martin forever; it’d be awesome to work with him. He’s really kind, and he’s been really encouraging when we’ve met.

Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.

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

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

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

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

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.‘