Stay humble and be concerned for the less fortunate.

If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.

A good thing to remember is somebody’s got it a lot worse than we do.

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.

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you’re above everybody else.

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

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.

So there’s no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn’t necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn’t necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

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

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

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

I say that in the most humble way: I always knew that I could perform with the best of ‚em and I could deliver with the best of ‚em.

Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.

I’m not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It’s really not my place.

I’m a people pleaser. I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse.

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man’s idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.

I just don’t like killing creatures.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

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

I’m no leader; I’m a little humble follower.

I’m not in it for fame. I’ve been famous in the streets already.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one’s key to the experience of others.

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.

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

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.

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Real living is living for others.

Sadly, the truth is, there aren’t many people who can be put in high positions who won’t start thinking highly of themselves.

I’m honest enough to say I don’t know everything. You know, I don’t. I don’t understand all of God. I don’t understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.

My problem is I am Christian, so I think other people must have success, too; it’s not about me.

The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.

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

I don’t have all the answers.

Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, with all our failures, with all our transgressions, with all and everything that is what it ought not to be, we come to Thee.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

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.

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

Generous people can become more generous as they become richer, giving away vast fortunes to worthwhile causes as Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are doing.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

It’s presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.

I have a collective sense of suffering.

I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman’s dance.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.

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

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

You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings.