What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy’s tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.

When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering what we used to be, and with great joy and gratitude, remembering how little we deserve these things.

It undoubtedly feels nice when you are being appreciated and you get complimented by girls. Who doesn’t like that? Having said that, I don’t take it as any pressure.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

When I was younger, I used to have more flair, I used to do more tricks, the nutmegs, the step-overs.

So many people are looking at what’s wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what’s right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

Pay attention, don’t let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.

What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.

The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.

I knew I was blessed with a gift of having both parents.

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.

I want to thank my Eritrean fans for feeling connected to me and for supporting me. I feel extremely grateful.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

Living big and joyful and content is almost always the result of our finding satisfaction in life’s ordinary day-to-day pleasures. And God must be fond of them, too, for He made so many of them for us to enjoy.

Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man’s, I mean.

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

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

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.

Every day, the people I meet inspire me… every day, they make me proud… every day they remind me how blessed we are to live in the greatest nation on earth.

We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.

I’m from the generation that had the boys‘ door and the girls‘ door when you went to school, and you got in big trouble if you went in the wrong one.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

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

I never saw any of my dad’s stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his ‚basic rights.‘

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

I do value the respect I get from my contemporaries, but to have Oasis cover my song, to have Puff Daddy cover a song, to have Goldie come along to my gigs – that’s where my ego is at. To have my fellow musicians like what I do, that’s very cool.

We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

It’s been wonderful for me, and I feel so privileged to have fans that are that loyal.

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.

Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

American taxpayers have been generous to Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

The first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladdens it with golden light.

You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.

My mother made me truly appreciate women.

Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it’s people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

People don’t realize what they had till it’s gone. Like President Kennedy, there was no one like him, the Beatles, and my man Elvis Presley. I was the Elvis of boxing.