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

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

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

T stands for being nice. T stands for manners. T stands for being polite.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Don’t throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

He has the most who is most content with the least.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn’t make me feel good at all.

Everybody likes a compliment.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

My father always taught me that when you help other people, then God will give you double. And that’s what has really happened to me. When I have helped other people who are in need, God has helped me more.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

Each doctor makes a much, much more important job than I do, but at the end, nobody talks about him. We all know about it, but we don’t really think about it.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

I have a very good family. I’m very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It’s one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

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

You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody’s spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.

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

It’s very inexpensive to give a compliment.

If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.

All our actions, as well as our thoughts and words, should praise Him who always blesses us.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

I know that I came into the world with what I call ‚big dharma‘ – with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.

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.

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.

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

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.

Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.

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.

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, ‚Boy, those were great old days.‘ Well, you know, we’re living in the good old days.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

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.

I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

Most of the time, I’m not even working; I’m just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.

When people meet me, they say that I’m really kind – contrary to a lot of my music.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.

I look at where I’m at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Real living is living for others.

If every man loves his mother, he’s going to treat the ladies right, with love and respect.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

Do I worry about being in the public eye and raising kids? Yeah. Any situation you’re in, you’re gonna worry about raising kids. But it’s champagne problems, too. There are people who can’t feed their kids.

Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.

I’m just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I’d be seeing Elvis soon.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

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.