I want the world to be better because I was here.

Take time to be kind and to say 'thank you.'

One thing that has to cease among Christians is the appeal to an audience to give with the promise of getting something.

Then Martin says, as if he is writing a commentary on Matthew 6:19—24: "The acid test is not what we say, but what we do; not what we promise in words, but what we actually give in money.

It's the little things that smoothes people's roads the most.

If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.

To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.

The quality of mercy . . . is twice blessed; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes; 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest. it becomes The thronèd monarch better than his crown.

Rocky Mountain etiquette required of a spectator was, that he should help the gentleman bury his game—otherwise his churlishness would surely be remembered against him the first time he killed a man himself and needed a neighborly turn in interring him.

The surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who's half a man, Or the man who's half a boy.

The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way. One says: "Merry Christmas"—not "Weep and Repent." And the good will is expressed in a material, earthly form—by giving presents to one's friends, or by sending them cards in token of remembrance.