“When you hug someone, never be the first to let go.”

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

Never underestimate your power to change yourself.

Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.

Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do.

Kind words and good deeds are eternal. You never know where their influence will end.

Remember that how you say something is as important as what you say.

Don’t burn bridges. You’ll be surprised how many times you have to cross the same river.

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something.

I never expect to lose. Even when I’m the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.

Grind it out. Hanging on just one second longer than your competition makes you the winner.

Become someone’s hero.

Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.

Show respect for everyone who works for a living, regardless of how trivial their job.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.

Those who are unkind to themselves will not appreciate your kindness. Do it anyway.

There is no such thing as a simple act of compassion or an inconsequential act of service. Everything we do for another person has infinite consequences.

God, help me to see others not as enemies or as ungodly but rather as thirsty people. And give me the courage and compassion to offer your Living Water, which alone quenches deep thirst.

Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one’s own.

Compassion is even more powerful than courage. Sure, with courage you can conquer a world – but only with compassion can you heal and build it.

Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

Can we ever have too much of a good thing?

Every act of kindness and compassion done by any man for his fellow Christian is done by Christ working within him.