What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.

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.

The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.

Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

When I write, it’s like choosing which shoes I’m going to put on. More often than not, my lyrics are personal – but I sometimes have to put myself in other people’s shoes.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

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.

I have a collective sense of suffering.

It’s not about changing people; it’s sometimes about changing a situation. How can we build an even better situation for them?

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

I just don’t like killing creatures.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

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

Don’t throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.

I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That’s why I started in with the props.

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

Everybody likes a compliment.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

If you wished to be loved, love.

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

Any hand that I’ve shaken, any person that I met when I was Joe Blow, now that I’m this guy Kevin Hart, has come back. That’s why I treat everybody with respect. I’m always a nice pleasant guy to meet because when they come back to you, they remember.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

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

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

When you’re around the kids, you feel like you act the most grown up just because you’re supposed to lead. I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

Anybody who has been discriminated against, who comes from a group that’s been discriminated against, knows what it’s like.

I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

I’m very sensitive. I remember, as a kid at school, if someone in the classroom was sad or angry, it could have a great impact on me.

Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.

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

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

I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

Sooner or later we’re all someone’s dog.

But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That’s what I strive to do, that’s what I pray to do every day.

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.

There are folks who now know black families – like the Johnsons on ‚Black-ish‘ or the folks on ‚Modern Family.‘ They become part of who you are. You share their pains. You understand their fears. They make you laugh, and they change how you see the world.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need.

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.

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

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

I have a big gay and lesbian following and they’ve been very loyal and kind to me.

Listen, I think that people want a president who is going to be interested in the things that keep them up at night, the things that are weighing on them, the things that are debilitating and can be addressed.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.