T stands for being nice. T stands for manners. T stands for being polite.

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

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, 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.

A lot of guys are able to separate how they act off the court versus how they act on the court.

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

The good man is the friend of all living things.

Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can’t put a dollar sign on.

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn’t anyone who doesn’t appreciate kindness and compassion.

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.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

I’ve learned people are watching, so don’t do nothing stupid.

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

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

I’m not the kind of cat that’s going to cut off an ear if I can’t do something.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

We need to, you know, restore people. We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that’s the mercy you’re going to be receiving.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

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

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

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

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

When I was a kid, I never did funny things to get attention. I was never a funny person. I was never, like, ‚Oh, wow. I could say this some day on stage.‘

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

I don’t know why they gave me a knighthood – though it’s very nice of them – but I only ever use the title in the U.S. The Americans insist on it and get offended if I don’t.

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

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

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Some people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn’t happen. If that’s the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be able to be comfortable in uncertainty.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.

If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane… There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

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.

I have a heart of gold, but I’m really a marshmallow in my heart.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy’s tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That’s what I strive to do, that’s what I pray to do every day.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

If every man loves his mother, he’s going to treat the ladies right, with love and respect.

I realized, ‚Yo, I can’t do anything in moderation. I don’t know how.‘

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

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

The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.