Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

I don’t want flowers or candy or anything like that. I just want somebody to say, ‚Wow, you’ve done a great job.‘

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

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Everybody should have a fair deal; everybody should have the chance to life in this world. If we were evolved as human beings, we would hopefully be able to alleviate suffering in the world.

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.

I can’t read the newspaper without crying. I’m easily affected by horrible events, you see.

The fact is that since you’re a divine creation who originated in the world of Spirit, you have exactly the right amount of smarts to accomplish all that you need and want to do while you’re here on earth. It’s all perfect… and so are you!

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

There’s a scripture that says, ‚A merry heart doeth good like medicine.‘ I think that’s true, too.

There’s people constantly asking you for something on set, so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you’re compassionate.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

When we’re looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

Never leave a rhinestone unturned.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than it takes to see the bad.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

To be admitted to Nature’s hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal – that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Rose Adams is a wonderful Christian woman who cared for my mother, Morrow Coffey Graham, in her last years of life.

For the people who ostensibly wish me well or are worried about my immortal soul, I say I take it kindly.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.

In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn’t change policy.

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

The most positive men are the most credulous.

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

If you’re in a workplace you don’t like right now, be encouraged because God will use it for your good. Think about it this way: He wants you to be a light in the darkness – and He’s putting His confidence in you!

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

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

I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

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.

The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, ‚You’re finished. The shoe’s finished.‘

Jesus never mistreated anyone just because they mistreated Him. He confronted them in a spirit of gentleness and then continued to love them.

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?

What I love best in life is new starts.

Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don’t think anybody has held this job who hasn’t felt personally responsible for those being killed.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

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

Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

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.