My true religion is kindness. That is a great moral position - practicing kindness, keeping one's heart open in the presence of suffering.

Sigh: who was it who said that to get into heaven, you needed a letter of recommendation from the poor?

I would give her the same advice God always gives me if I think to ask: Go do some anonymous things for lonely people, give a few bucks to every poor person you see, return phone calls. Get out of yourself and become a person for others, while simultaneously practicing radical self-care: maybe have a bite to eat, check in with the sky twice, buy some cute socks, take a nap.

If you want to know how God feels about money, look at who she gives it to

Everyone has a problem, a desire, and a narrative. Who will you seek to serve?

Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion, benevolence, and humanity.

Good King Wenceslas looked out on the feast of Stephen, When the snow lay round about, Deep and crisp and even.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Charity must become a fundamental state of mind and heart that guides us in all we do.

If we had lost our own chief good, other people's good would remain, and that is worth trying for.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult to others?

He who is dying of hunger must be fed rather than taught.