you can care about people without leading them, but you cannot lead people well without caring about them.

Take interest in others before they take interest in you.

People don't care what you know until they know you care.

Produce second-mile followers. If you go out of your way to care about others and help them, then they will go out of their way to help you when you ask them to.

The person who believes the sum of his morality involves gay marriage and abortion alone, and neglects health care and world trade and the environment and loving his neighbor and feeding the poor is, by definition, a theological liberal, because he takes what he wants from Scripture and ignores the rest.

I've discovered that the more love and joy I pour into others, the more I experience in my own life.

No American is ever made better off by pulling a fellow American down, and all of us are made better off whenever any one of us is made better off.

Love is wanting what's best for the other person. Romance is wanting the other person.

It is important to know when you feel down that many others do also and that their circumstances are generally much worse than yours. And it's important to know that when one of us is down it becomes the obligation of his friends to give him a lift. I hope that each of us will cultivate a sensitivity toward the feelings of others and when encouragement is needed make an effort to extend it. Be a friend and you will have a friend. God be thanked for wonderful friends.

loving and unselfish thoughts crystallize into habits of self-forgetfulness for others, which solidify into circumstances of sure and abiding prosperity and true riches.

Generosity creates the higher life. There is no nobler virtue than the care one person shows to another.

f you are too good to look after God's trash, you are not good enough to look after God's treasure.