Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

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.

Every other civilized nation in the world has been compelled to care for its forests, and so must we if waste and destruction are not to go on to the bitter end, leaving America as barren as Palestine or Spain.

Sadly, of course, there is real evil in the world. You watch the news, and you see all of the people suffering and so much cruelty.

I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinner table and talk to them about their mother who has cancer or their child who is struggling in school, and their fears about watching their lives go by, I think we’re all the same.

Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

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.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

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

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

I wish every American had an opportunity to sit down, to go to a base, to meet with families, to meet with service members, to sit down with our veterans – because we would think differently about our challenges as individuals.

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

I’m no longer just a candidate. I’m the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn’t return. I’ve shared the pain of families who’ve lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who’ve lost their jobs.

People have me pinned as a shark or a predator in some way, and in no way am I that. I wouldn’t want to hurt anyone. I want to defend people. I want to help people.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

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

I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person’s shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.

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

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

I’m not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they’re going through. I don’t know if that’s the healthiest thing, but it’s the truth.

What I remember as a child is that other kids didn’t care about suffering. I always did.

Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.

Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

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.

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

I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.

What we have found in this country, and maybe we’re more aware of it now, is one problem that we’ve had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

We learned about dignity and decency – that how hard you work matters more than how much you make… that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.

We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that’s the mercy you’re going to be receiving.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn’t anyone who doesn’t appreciate kindness and compassion.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

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.

That’s the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.

I remember when I was younger, and in school, our teachers showed us films of plastic in the ocean, starving polar bears and so on. I cried through all the movies. My classmates were concerned when they watched the film, but when it stopped, they started thinking about other things. I couldn’t do that. Those pictures were stuck in my head.

When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It’s inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.

So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

I look after people.

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.

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on the highest emotional level… Anytime I think about it, it makes me sadder than anything I can think of.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

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.

Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

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

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

I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.