No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.

Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

It's presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.

Examine your heart often to see if it is such toward your neighbor as you would like his to be toward you were you in his place. This is the touchstone of true reason.

The bitterest fruit tastes sweet when you share it with someone you love.

Relating personal problems to associates and customers. Your personal problems are important to you—and only you. Everyone has their share and they don't want to hear about yours.

You will find happiness only by helping others to find it.

There is one way that your personality will always attract, and this is by taking an honest interest in other people.

Did people always have to wait for pestilence or war or tragedy to be shocked into forgetting about themselves?

Caring for yourself, reestablishing peace in yourself, is the basic condition for helping someone else. So that the other can stop being a bomb, a source of pain for ourselves and others, you really have to help him to defuse the bomb. To be able to provide help, we have to have a little calm, a little joy, a little compassion in ourselves.

Therefore, in order to take care of you, I have to take care of myself.

I felt enough of the effect of withdrawing from the world then, to see that it led to an antisocial and misanthropic state of mind, which severely punished him who gives in to it. And it will be a lesson I never shall forget as to myself.