That’s the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.

I bet taxpayers remember providing more than $812 billion to Citigroup and Bank of America, two Wall Street banks, in 2009 to bail them out during the 2008 financial crisis. Taxpayers remember that generosity; big banks evidently don’t.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

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.

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.

First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her – for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.

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.

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

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

It’s silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.

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

Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don’t buy a single vote more than is necessary. I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay for a landslide.

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

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

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

As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed!

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‚What are you doing for others?‘

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

I’ve been searching for ways to heal myself, and I’ve found that kindness is the best way.

You may be rich, but there is one thing you can’t afford – that is, if you are a good sort – you can’t afford to spend money on your own luxuries while there are people around you wanting the necessaries of life.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

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.

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.

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.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

No one has ever become poor by giving.

I like to give back.

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.

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

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.

Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

Let us ask ourselves, ‚What kind of people do we think we are?‘ And let us answer, ‚Free people, worthy of freedom and determined not only to remain so but to help others gain their freedom as well.‘

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.

All missionaries, younger and older, serve with the sole hope of making life better for other people.

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

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

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.

It’s amazing how people will give when you don’t ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

It’s flattering to people who stop you and say that you’ve helped them and all. But, again, you know, you’ve got to stay humble because as quick as you came up, you can come down.

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.‘

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

If we don’t plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don’t have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don’t have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

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.

We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.

You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody’s spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.