Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.

I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.

Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness.

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.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity.

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

I hope that you will be amongst those young people who say we worked to change the world. We worked to make the world a more gentle, a more compassionate, a more caring world.

Faithfully caring for the poor and needy is a reflection of spiritual maturity.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

Whether…a change from the supremacy of natural science to a new social science will take place…depends on one factor: how many brilliant, learned, disciplined, and caring men and women are attracted by the new challenge.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

If I can get out of the way, if I can be pure enough, if I can be selfless enough, and if I can be generous and loving and caring enough to abandon what I have in my own preconceived silly notions of what I think I am – and become truly who in fact I am, which is really just another child of God – then the music can really use me. And therein lies my fulfillment. That’s when the music starts to happen.

Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person’s life.

Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.

No society can long sustain itself unless its members have learned the sensitivities, motivations and skills involved in assisting and caring for other human beings.

When I got my first TV set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships with other people.

A man can be beautiful physically, mentally, or personality wise. True beauty, though, is in the spirit. A genuine man who understands right and wrong, with a strong sense of self is beautiful. A man who can be compassionate and caring, but firm and wise. Someone who can do the right thing no matter who’s around to see it. Even if the deed is unseen and unrecognized. That is a beautiful man. One today is worth two tomorrows.

I have found that she is as kind and caring a person as she is hilarious. Simply put, Amy Poehler is my hero.

Most of the people that I’ve worked with when shooting films that I really respect, there is a point which you do become obsessed in a good way. And because it’s a collaborative medium, you’re not by yourself in a room tearing your hair out, you’re in a room with a bunch of people. And we’re all tearing our hairs out, or trying to get something right, or caring deeply about something. But that’s fun.

I’m very disappointed in Barack Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks. I cannot support his caving in to Benjamin Netanyahu. I think many black people support him because they’re so happy to have handsome black man in the White House. But it doesn’t make me happy if that handsome black man in the White House is betraying all of our traditional values of peace, peoplehood, caring about strangers, feeding the hungry, and not bombing children.

By not caring too much about what people think, I’m able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed with them because, again, I don’t care too much what other people think.