Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.

There was a common proverb of old, "What is it to the Romans that the Greeks die?" So we think that our dangers and calamities only belong to ourselves. But how does this principle agree with the commandment of God? For his will is that we should all live together, and be to each other as brethren.

See, according to this rule the good things we have from God should flow from one to the other and be common to all, so that everyone should "put on" his neighbor and so conduct himself toward him as if he himself were in the other's place.

Lacking real compassion and charity for others, he would take pleasure in weeping and rejoicing with the fictional characters on the stage. His love was not real.

And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond that you do what you say you're going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them and even if you don't agree with them.

As kingdom workers, our job is to learn to discern the season of each person's soul.

There are many in the world dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.

You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution.

Humility is the soil in which mercy for others grows.

It's pointless to blame someone for being themselves and looking to their own interests.

For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”