Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

I do not doubt that we would become more useful if we praised God more, and others would join us, for they would see that God has blessed us.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

From caring comes courage.

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

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

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.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

The Hindus are some of the nicest people you’ll ever meet.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

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

Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.

We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be.

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.

If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That’s not going to happen if you care only about yourself.

If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

I know why we’re strong. I know why we have held together; I know why we are united: it’s because there’s always been a growing middle class.

I love to sit and eat quietly and enjoy each bite, aware of the presence of my community, aware of all the hard and loving work that has gone into my food.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.

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

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.

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

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

I think whenever something is – whenever there’s something that affects the public good, then there does need to be some form of public oversight.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

I hate fund-raising. Haaaaate it. Hate, hate it.

My doorman is more important to me than any head of any company. He keeps us safe.

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.

My children love Maleficent’s voice, so they always make me do it at home.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

One of the things I love most about being at home is that I’m comfortable there. And since we are the home of Christ, we need to make sure He’s comfortable in us.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

If I were a Negro, I’d be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I’d rather go down with my flag flying. If you’re weak or crippled, or you can’t speak out or fight back in some way, then people don’t hesitate to treat you badly.

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.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

I’m doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.