kindness Quotes

I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.

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.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.

Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn't matter. You said, 'That's an American' because there's a readiness to smile and to talk to people.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

It's very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn't be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.