We just cannot worry about ourselves.

Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

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.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

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.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

Occasionally I’ve seen children become heavy-handed and insensitive when dealing with their aging parents, and it only caused resentment and hard feelings.

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.

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.

It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

I look after people.

When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That’s when you can get more creative in solving problems.

I tell everybody, I get so much because I give so much. I give freely, I give all my time, give all my money, give all of my soul. I try to motivate people. I try to inspire them.

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.

Understanding is a two-way street.

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

A good thing to remember is somebody’s got it a lot worse than we do.

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.

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

If someone decides they’re not going to be happy, it’s not your problem. You don’t have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

I’m actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.

We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

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

The American people have not become heartless.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?

We don’t get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.

I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

I often advocate that we look at many sides of an issue, walk in someone else’s shoes, and identify and reject false choices.

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.

Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.

I hate letting my teammates down. I know I’m not going to make every shot. Sometimes I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don’t feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

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.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

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.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

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.

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

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.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

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.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one’s key to the experience of others.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.

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.

Instead of judging people, we need to pray.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

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