Never underestimate the significance of the little things done out of a large heart of love.

This is the best cure for melancholy: to set about doing something which will require muscular exertion and which will benefit others.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. . . . As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

If you're feeling helpless, help someone.

To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others. Even the briefest touch of kindness can lighten a heavy heart. Kindness can change the lives of people.

I believe that we were meant to live as social creatures, to reach out and bless each other's lives.

We need to recognize the opportunity that green jobs present to Florida and to the economy.

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.

There are few prophets in the world; few sublimely beautiful women; few heroes. I can't afford to give all my love and reverence to such rarities: I want a great deal of those feelings for my every-day fellow-men, especially for the few in the foreground of the great multitude, whose faces I know, whose hands I touch, for whom I have to make way with kindly courtesy.

What do we live for, if not to make the world less difficult for each other?