I look after people.

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

There is always something infinitely mean about other people’s tragedies.

I’ve never had a divorce, but I’ve seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can’t write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I’m able to kind of express it, or their joy.

Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.

We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.

The notion that we have even one single veteran living on the streets should be just considered a travesty to all of us.

A true man hates no one.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

We’re a blip in the existence of the universe, and we’re constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

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

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

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.

They might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

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

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

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

I’m not a one-man show. I was never that in my life, and I never want to be that.

You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don’t think it’s intelligent, and it’s not sane. So why would you want to support it?

And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

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.

You never make fun of anybody with a club foot or a withered arm, but it’s open season on anybody who stutters.

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything – diseases, spiders… and people getting tired of me.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

It’s hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don’t always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.

A saint is tolerant and is attentive to the pleadings of other human beings, not only to spoken messages but to unspoken messages as well.

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

I want to support other women because of the opportunities I’ve had – and I’ve had a lot of opportunities. What I try as a female director is to do the best job I can and, in the meantime, bring attention to as many other female directors and writers as I can.

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.

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

All of us are mentors. You’re mentors right here and now. And one of the things I’ve always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they suffer from feelings of isolation. I think that is one reason why young readers support my work.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

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.

How can we help President Obama?

It is not so much our friends‘ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Stay humble and be concerned for the less fortunate.

It’s that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so ‚don’t fuss, dear; get on with it.‘

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

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?

I would just say there is one misperception of our veterans, and that is they are somehow damaged goods. I don’t buy it.

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

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

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

I gave ‚em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I’d have done the same thing.