Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.

Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I’ve got. Somebody’s got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain’t got this, somebody ain’t got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

There is a moral obligation that those who have should give to those who don’t.

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

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.

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

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.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

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

For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier… I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.

I like to give back.

A true man hates no one.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

I’m committed to the people of Gujarat. I will devote each and every moment to serve my people of Gujarat.

We’re running the company to serve more people.

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.

We think that life develops spontaneously on Earth, so it must be possible for life to develop on suitable planets elsewhere in the universe. But we don’t know the probability that a planet develops life.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

The sergeant is the Army.

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

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

Compassion is the basis of morality.

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.

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

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

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

Giving is just one way of expressing that God has been good to you and will continue to do so through your being good to others.

The generous Critic fann’d the Poet’s fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

My mother told me, ‚Son, nobody else but God knows.‘ And that’s what I’m about – reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That’s what I do.

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.

Real living is living for others.

The American people have not become heartless.

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

One thing that I find very unmotivating is the kind of Plan B argument: when Earth gets destroyed, you want to be somewhere else. That doesn’t work for me. We have sent robotic probes now to every place in the solar system, and this is the best one.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

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.

‚Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

The earth is bountiful, and where her bounty fails, nitrogen drawn from the air will refertilize her womb. I developed a process for this purpose in 1900. It was perfected fourteen years later under the stress of war by German chemists.

Don’t throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

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

Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen – inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet life-supporting planet – the only one in the whole Milky Way – with a century of transportation whoopee.

Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.