Just as hundreds of brushstrokes comprised a finished canvas, people were made up of a lifetime of experiences, both good and bad. And without knowing what someone had endured, it was impossible to truly know them—and accept them—for who they were.

Etiquette is the stuff you gotta do just 'cause that's how everyone else does it. Like holding your fork in your left hand, or saying 'Bless you' if someone sneezes. Manners is treating people with respect.

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

Every act of kindness and compassion done by any man for his fellow Christian is done by Christ working within him.

A religious man is a person... whose greatest passion is compassion.

A man can counterfeit love, he can counterfeit faith, he can counterfeit hope and all the other graces, but it is very difficult to counterfeit humility.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

The mark of a man of God is God upon the man.

Charisma gets the attention of man and character gets the attention of God.

Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.

Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.

An Israelite could not have sung the familiar song 'God is so good, God is so good, God is so good, he's so good to me' (though the words echo the Psalms) without being reminded also of its ethical consequence: 'God asks me to show that goodness to others.