Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue.

Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them.

You are just as capable of making a mistake as anyone else. By insisting too eagerly upon a small right, you may turn it into a wrong against yourself and also against your neighbor.

Do not take yourself too seriously. You have to learn not to be dismayed at making mistakes. No human being can avoid failures.

Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.

Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than you harsh one?

A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.

If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody.

Nobody needs a smile so much as the one who has none to give. So get used to smiling heart-warming smiles, and you will spread sunshine in a sometimes dreary world.

It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.

Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue.

Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!

A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.

Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world.

The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.

A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directs and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind to themselves.

A gentleman has his eyes on all those present he is tender toward the bashful gentle toward the distant and merciful toward the absent.

Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye while recognizing defects sees beyond them.

Kind words are a creative force a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good and energy that showers blessings upon the world.

It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow minded gossip for they speak of persons instead of things.

Having played an angel for so long, you can imagine that I've been asked to endorse any number of causes over the years. Obviously I have to limit my participation with any charity, so I decided to really concentrate on my love of children.

A number of girls of my acquaintance went to school to the nuns of the Congregational Nunnery, or Sisters of Charity, as they are sometimes called.

It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity.

I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming.

Northern white people love the Negro in a sort of abstract way, as a race; through a sense of justice, charity, and philanthropy, they will liberally assist in his elevation.

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there.

I play a lot of charity golf mainly. I'm a bandit 18 if I play two or three times a week.

If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour.

Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.

The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.

Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.

I have been able to travel all over the country and see many places that I probably never would have visited. I have also participated in many charity events for worthy causes.

We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market principle, a principle of equality, of charity, of let's-take-care-of-one-another. That's the creative challenge.

I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.

Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.

I've a problem with the word charity because I think that NGOs, as I prefer calling them, really do take the work of moral and social responsibilities that ought to be taken on by governments.

It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work.

Harvey never had an original idea or thought in his life. I was out wandering around the country doing charity benefits, mainly, when I asked him to come along.

There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.

Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.

We have tried you citizens; we are trying you now, and you have a couple of dollars for the sorrowing mothers, brothers and sisters by way of a charity gift.

I really enjoy doing charity, for a good cause, it's like the least I can do, I really enjoy that stuff. I enjoy giving back.

Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.