We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul.

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.

The kindness that’s been shown to me, by doctors as well as my family and my friends, it’s really saved my life.

However weak we are, however poor, however little our faith, or however small our grace may be, our names are still written on His heart; nor shall we lose our share in Jesus‘ love.

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.

To be able to throw one’s self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman’s smile – that is happiness.

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.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

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

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

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.

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

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

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

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.

I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.

I don’t want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve never met. I want to go on living even after my death!

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

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.

If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.

The generous Critic fann’d the Poet’s fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

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.

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

Money doesn’t mean anything to me. I’ve made a lot of money, but I want to enjoy life and not stress myself building my bank account. I give lots away and live simply, mostly out of a suitcase in hotels. We all know that good health is much more important.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

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 must be cruel, only to be kind.

Stay humble and be concerned for the less fortunate.

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.‘

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

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

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

Practice radical humility. Take no credit for your talents, intellectual abilities, aptitudes, or proficiencies. Be in a state of awe and bewilderment.

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

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

I was never focused on me, me, me all the time. I was always focused on somebody else.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

I’m so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.

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

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‚What’s in it for me?‘

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don’t do any good, but they don’t necessarily do any harm. It’s touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I’ve got my just desserts.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

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

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

If you wished to be loved, love.

I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do.

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.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.