The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

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.

I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.

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

I’m not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they’re going through. I don’t know if that’s the healthiest thing, but it’s the truth.

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker’s personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.

A ‚No‘ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‚Yes‘ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

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

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

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

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation’s promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.

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.

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

When you’re around the kids, you feel like you act the most grown up just because you’re supposed to lead. I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

The capability of negotiating… is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

There is always something infinitely mean about other people’s tragedies.

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

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

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.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

I deserve respect for the things I did not do.

Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the people who are on the front line.

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

They might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Morality is contraband in war.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

What is permissible is not always honorable.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today – and in fact we have forgotten.

See things from the boy’s point of view.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.