To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

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

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

The blessed of us must save the less of us. I’m blessed, and yeah, I’m planning to go to Heaven.

Most of the time, I’m not even working; I’m just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.

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

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

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

It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

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.

When people meet me, they say that I’m really kind – contrary to a lot of my music.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

A true man hates no one.

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

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

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.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

God has given us two hands – one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing.

Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn’t give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn’t seem right.

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

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn’t make me feel good at all.

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.

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

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

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.

I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.

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 I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

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

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

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

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don’t have to be rich. You don’t have to be a genius. You don’t have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate.

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

The funny thing is people won’t let me pay for things. I’ll be in a restaurant and the manager will say, ‚Oh no, it’s on the house.‘

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.

Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

Not only do I think being nice and kind is easy but being kind, in my opinion, is important.

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

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

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

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.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

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

The Revlon Run/Walk effort to focus on women’s cancer has my wholehearted support and gratitude.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

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

Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.