Service

If you wait until you can do everything for everybody, instead of something for somebody, you'll end up not doing anything for anybody.

Justice is what love looks like in public.

Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors.

It always helps to have people we love beside us when we have to do difficult things in life.

In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

We can ask ourselves daily what we have done to make the world a better place, to make someone smile, to help someone to feel more secure, etc. It's the simple things which have the greatest effect. We must never underestimate the strength of a smile or act of kindness.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.

There isn't anyone you couldn't love once you've heard their story.

Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person, they are almost indistinguishable.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness— great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness makes goodness much more serviceable.

Love and trust, in the space between what's said and what's heard in our life, can make all the difference in this world.

If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.

The real issue in life is not how many blessings we have, but what we do with our blessings. Some people have many blessings and hoard them. Some people have few and give everything away.

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 have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong, because someday in life you will have been all of these.

If you see someone without a smile today, give 'em yours.