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

If you are not being bullied all I would say – cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well – is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there’s someone in your class that maybe doesn’t have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

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

I bet taxpayers remember providing more than $812 billion to Citigroup and Bank of America, two Wall Street banks, in 2009 to bail them out during the 2008 financial crisis. Taxpayers remember that generosity; big banks evidently don’t.

God is patient with us to become the God’s children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.

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

No one has ever become poor by giving.

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.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

I got quite annoyed after the Haiti earthquake. A baby was taken from the wreckage and people said it was a miracle. It would have been a miracle had God stopped the earthquake. More wonderful was that a load of evolved monkeys got together to save the life of a child that wasn’t theirs.

I always think if you are asking somebody for something it is a good idea to give them something first.

If we don’t plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don’t have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don’t have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity – the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

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.

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.

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

Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.

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

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

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

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man’s new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.

‚Suffering should not make us bitter people,‘ my mother once said, ‚it should make us better comforters.‘ Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they’ll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.

There’s a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.

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

I always joke that my kids‘ favorite holiday is Father’s Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It’s my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad.

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

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

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.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

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

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

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

If you’re nice to me I’ll never write anything bad about you.

Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

We just cannot worry about ourselves.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

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

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

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

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

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

Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.

Jesus never mistreated anyone just because they mistreated Him. He confronted them in a spirit of gentleness and then continued to love them.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

The good man is the friend of all living things.

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

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.

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.