The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

If you wish to be loved, love.

Just rest another minute, Cass. You needed to cry those tears. You've been through a terrible time. Just let me hold you.

The shortest distance between two hearts is compassion.

Those closest to us have first claim to our acts of love.

A man is too insignificant to be preoccupied with his failures. All of the energy he has is required for attending to the loneliness, the pain, the needs of others.

We want people who have hearts that break for our world and the people in it and do something about it.

When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love.

At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by "I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.