The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‚If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?‘ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‚If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?‘

My mother always wanted to give back.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

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.

I have no human feelings.

Learning to live for others isn’t something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

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

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

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

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.

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.

What I have in common with the character in ‚Truman‘ is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

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

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.

Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

I think ‚Dirty Harry‘ was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Information helps you to see that you’re not alone. That there’s somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who’ve all longed and lost, who’ve all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you’re not really any different from everyone else.

Compliment three people every day.

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

People have me pinned as a shark or a predator in some way, and in no way am I that. I wouldn’t want to hurt anyone. I want to defend people. I want to help people.

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

I’d rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.

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

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

Now that I understand that I’m an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

We do not judge the people we love.

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: ‚What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.‘

I can’t read the newspaper without crying. I’m easily affected by horrible events, you see.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

I see children, all children, as humanity’s most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.

Whether a person is straight or gay, Republican, Democrat, good person, not a good person, they’re all welcome, because to me, church is a place you’re supposed to get healed and whole and loved.

Religion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.

I think those who have a terminal illness and are in great pain should have the right to choose to end their own life, and those that help them should be free from prosecution.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

A true man hates no one.