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

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

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

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.

I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

My mother was a full-time mother. She didn’t have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences… everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving – she’s better than me.

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

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.

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

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.

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

Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware.

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

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

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

The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.

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

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn’t greedy. It was mine, my girl’s, my mom’s. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we’re very modest. But that’s not greedy. That’s nice, right?

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

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.

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

For more than a decade, I led an organization that put on an elaborate Christmas program each December. It was a big production, with over 250 people participating in more than 20 performances. By the end of the season, everyone who participated was exhausted.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

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

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.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

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

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

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

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

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‚What’s in it for me?‘

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

The Hindus are some of the nicest people you’ll ever meet.

Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits.

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

I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.

You make more money if you’re generous.

Compliment three people every day.

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

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.

I just think that it’s strong and it’s important that we recognize what the Christmas season is about; it’s about the birth of our Savior, and there’s a lot of pressure today to be politically correct, but people are realizing, too, that you have to be open to express your faith what you want believe.

All of us are mentors. You’re mentors right here and now. And one of the things I’ve always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.

I must be cruel, only to be kind.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.

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

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.