When you choose to be pleasant and positive in the way you treat others, you have also chosen, in most cases, how you are going to be treated by others.

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

Whatever I fight weakens me. Whatever I cooperate with strengthens me.

There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.

We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.

The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.

The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is noninterference with their own peculiar ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.

Never, therefore, allow yourselves to despise those who do not follow your rules of life: but force your hearts to love them, and pray to God for them; and let humility be always whispering it into your ears, that you yourselves would fall from those rules to-morrow, if God should leave you to your own strength and wisdom.

Allow God to continually soften your heart so that it beats for what his heart beats for - people.

Friendship is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.

Don't judge other people. For example, if you want God's anointing to be on you for parenting, you need to be careful not to criticize other parents.