I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.

Every single person who's drifted in and out of your life is a part of your divinely chosen experience. So, give thanks for all of these people, and take serious note of what they brought you.

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship and he who plants kindness gathers love.

None of us has the power to make someone else love us. But we all have the power to give away love, to love other people. And if we do so, we change the kind of world we live in.

Selfishness is weakness. But loving and caring for others is a position of power beyond anything we can possibly imagine.

I never met a man that I didn't like.

We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.

A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of inertia.

7th July, 1871.—I was annoyed by a woman frequently beating a slave near my house, but on my reproving her she came and apologized. I told her to speak softly to her slave, as she was now the only mother the girl had;

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.