There are people in the world who aren’t necessarily Christians, but they’re just naturally nice people who do a lot for other people. Those people will almost always be prosperous people.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

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

You quickly find, when you are a hand-reader as I am, that nothing interests people so much as themselves.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

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

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

When we’re looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

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 I’m the people’s poet, then I ought to be in people’s hands – and, I hope, in their heart.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that’s middle-class morality.

I’m entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they’re thinking and who they are and who’s hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what’s the story, really?

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

I’ve been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

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

We just cannot worry about ourselves.

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

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.

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

Ethiopia didn’t just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, ‚Would you take my son with you?‘ He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.

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

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.

I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

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.

Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

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.

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

Never elated when someone’s oppressed, never dejected when another one’s blessed.

The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.

The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.

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.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

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.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world, so I always pray for that, and I always want to do good.

People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.

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.

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

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

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.

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.

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 intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

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

Men are only as great as they are kind.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.