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

The poorest people are the sweetest people.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy’s going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

I don’t like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.

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.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

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.

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

A saint serves others, knowing that the more one serves, the greater the opportunity for the Spirit to sanctify and purify.

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.

I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about.

I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn’t feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It’s a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

When you give up yourself, that’s when you will feel the true spirit of Christmas. And that’s giving that’s serving others and that’s when you feel fulfilled.

The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.

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

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.

What I remember as a child is that other kids didn’t care about suffering. I always did.

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

The good man is the friend of all living things.

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

If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.

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 shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

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

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.

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There’s another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.

A true man hates no one.

I hate fund-raising. Haaaaate it. Hate, hate it.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.

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

If you give, you will be blessed.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

My mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the different charities and makes the very hard decisions about where that pool of funds is going to go.

The only big things I’ve purchased are my dad’s heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

I’m generous. I give good tips. It’s just – the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don’t want anything. I’m not a consumer. I don’t crave objects.

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

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

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

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

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

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other’s well-being, is source of happiness.