What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What’s the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

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.

It’s hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I’m talking to them.

One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

I’ve never been a jealous person, and I’ve never felt built up by someone else’s failure – that’s a cheap thrill.

Maleficent has suffered abuse in the past, and there’s a reason why she is now as furious as she is. And I think that children who have been outcast and abused in any way will relate to her. There’s a beautiful side to her; she’s not just a dark person. She has all these facets. And that is interesting.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

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.

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.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.

Everybody likes a compliment.

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

Reproach is shame, blame, disgrace, disapproval and a disrespectful attitude toward yourself. When you’re under reproach, your behavior shows it.

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

We are all alike, on the inside.

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

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

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

It’s amazing if you just listen to people. They tell you all the time things that you can do for them, without even realizing what they’re doing. I’ve learned to take notice of those things and if it’s something that I feel God wants me to do, then I try to do that to add joy to their life.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

Everybody, to some extent, manipulates. Even children learn to cry when they want something. There are all kinds of subtle things we do to get others to follow our lead, not bother us, and so on.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

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

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

He who has felt his own ruin will not imagine the case of any to be hopeless; nor will he think them too fallen to be worthy his regard.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

It’s hard to wrap my head around the fact that there are people who can’t or won’t see what Black Lives Matter is trying to accomplish.

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

There is always something infinitely mean about other people’s tragedies.

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

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 notion that we have even one single veteran living on the streets should be just considered a travesty to all of us.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another.

Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world. This is the most beautiful quality in a revolutionary.

One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

It’s presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.

A creep is someone who claims he’s one thing but he’s actually another.

When you’re young, you’re very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.

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

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

Respect the burden.

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

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.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.