If I'm on a bus and an old lady gets on, I get up.

Why will doing a good deed every day produce such astounding effects on the doer? Because trying to please others will cause us to stop thinking of ourselves: the very thing that produces worry and fear and melancholia.

Forget yourself by becoming interested in others. Every day do a good deed that will put a smile of joy on someone's face.

You can be cured in fourteen days if you follow this prescription. Try to think every day how you can please someone.

There are thousands of people like her, people who are ill from "ingratitude," loneliness, and neglect. They long to be loved; but the only way in this world that they can ever hope to be loved is to stop asking for it and to start pouring out love without hope of return.

The other idea is, "I love you, and I will serve you by doing what is good for you, whether you want it or not.

Spread love wherever you go. Let no one come to you without leaving happier.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come without leaving happier.

Let us leave a spare place at our table: a place for those who lack the basics, who are alone.

Walking in love means giving the other person what he or she needs the most when it is least deserved, because that's exactly how God has treated you.

We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our friends' thoughts of us were of so pure and lofty a character that they passed over us like the winds of heaven unnoticed when they treated us not as what we were, but as what we aspired to be. -- from A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.