A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.

Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.

Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.

The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people.

It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.

When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it's pretty certain that she has his.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

A pin has as much head as some authors and a good deal more point.

Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.

We are in favor of tolerance, but it is a very difficult thing to tolerate the intolerant and impossible to tolerate the intolerable.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.

Kindness is always fashionable.

Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. No exceptions.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

I will say that since our capture we have met with uniform kindness, and while in the penitentiary our relations with the officers have been cordially pleasant, and for their considerate and kind disposition we feel profoundly grateful.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon.

Well, I'll tell you something, this wedding is something that I will always, always cherish. It was a show of love and support and kindness like I'd never seen from the people, and that's who I entertain. I entertain the people.

I am so proud of Michigan's citizens for the kindness and generosity they have shown in assisting in this endeavor. It is truly heartwarming to see the compassion shown for those in need.

Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

Kindness is the cause of all anxiety.

He who aspires to paradise should learn to deal with people with kindness.

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.

Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.

They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness.

As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

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

You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart.

You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.

There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.

The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others.

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.