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.

You learn that there’s no right way to do it, no wrong way to do it. It’s just what you feel comfortable with, to trust that, and don’t let anybody box you in to a certain style of parenting or make you feel a certain way about what your kids do.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

Rose Adams is a wonderful Christian woman who cared for my mother, Morrow Coffey Graham, in her last years of life.

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

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

Sadly, of course, there is real evil in the world. You watch the news, and you see all of the people suffering and so much cruelty.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

American taxpayers have been generous to Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

The kindness that’s been shown to me, by doctors as well as my family and my friends, it’s really saved my life.

The vibe in our locker room is real energetic and fun and real personable, I think from Day 1. That gets you through a lot of tough times, where in hard times, it might be common nature for guys to do their own thing and split up and become silent.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

My wife, a schoolteacher, very disciplined. If you think I’m tough, trust me, and wait till you see when the children are on the naughty step. It’s hilarious. So we decided that I’m going to work like a donkey and provide amazing support for the family.

When the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I’m so happy I did a nice thing.

I remember when I was younger, and in school, our teachers showed us films of plastic in the ocean, starving polar bears and so on. I cried through all the movies. My classmates were concerned when they watched the film, but when it stopped, they started thinking about other things. I couldn’t do that. Those pictures were stuck in my head.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

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

I’m doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.

Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.

I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything – diseases, spiders… and people getting tired of me.

There are people who want to make men’s lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

I often advocate that we look at many sides of an issue, walk in someone else’s shoes, and identify and reject false choices.

If I inspire you, pay for it, period.

You make more money if you’re generous.

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.

It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic.

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

I have no human feelings.

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

If anything, we should feel sorry for the people who want us to feel bad about ourselves, because they are the ones struggling for approval. In middle school, bullies tortured other kids because they thought it would make people like them more.

What you guys want, I’m for.

There is always something infinitely mean about other people’s tragedies.

You give before you get.

Everybody likes a compliment.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.

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

Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on the highest emotional level… Anytime I think about it, it makes me sadder than anything I can think of.

My whole family have all been through a difficult time. My focus is my children, our children.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

The happiest people I know as a nation are the Burmese; their brightness and cheeriness are proverbial. Kindness to animals is one of their greatest ‚weaknesses‘; no Burmese will kill an animal, even if it is to put it out of pain.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another – until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, ‚I don’t believe they meant to hurt me.‘ ‚Maybe they’re having a bad day or don’t feel well.‘ ‚They probably don’t even realize how they sound.‘

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

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.