Quotes About Kindness

One thing my wife says is bad about me, is that I still care too much.

My wife is unusually kind and generous, but she's no fool. You don't mess with her.

It's a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just relating to one another.

I have always brought home stray animals - everything from squirrels to wild rabbits to foxes and turtles.

We decided that how we react to and treat those fellow mortals, wild and domestic, tells us more about ourselves than, perhaps, some of us want to know.

Should a girl like me, in whom the milk of human kindness flows copiously for everyone, from protein-shy Hottentots to the glandular obese, actually aim a few swift boots at the prone form of Sen. Phil Gramm? Nah. But it's tempting.

You can make more friends in a month by being interested in them than in ten years by trying to get them interested in you.

Somebody told me a story where they met a celebrity when they were six years old, and the celebrity was really mean. They still remember that to this day. I never want some 22-year-old in ten years' time to say, 'I met Madelaine Petcsh, and it ruined my idea of celebrities,' so I'm always aware.

I have a tendency to be awfully big-hearted and it's very hard for me to say no, even when I need to.

Our human tendency is to be impatient with the person who cannot see the truth that is so plain to us. We must be careful that our impatience is not interpreted as condemnation or rejection.

Humans have a lot of pro-social tendencies.

Formalized rules of manners were so great because they left no room for basic human haplessness. They allowed us to circumvent our natural boorish tendency to disregard the feelings of others.

When you read the news, and you see all this bad stuff happening, there's a tendency to lose faith in humanity. But I meet so many people who restore it and realize that, actually, 99 percent of people are great.

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.

If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.

I knew Rita Hayworth only enough to know that she was just a tender, sensitive, beautiful human being. A lovely person. Very gentle. She would never stand up for her rights.

Men can be tender, too.

I want everybody to succeed. It's just part of who I am. I probably do that with my kids tenfold. I'm as insecure as the next person, but it doesn't ever take me over.

I give a tenth of my salary to charity every month, so in terms of giving back, I do my best.

I am proud to be a Southerner. I think Southern hospitality is very... I don't think it's just a term. I think it really exists. You can come to Savannah, and the people are so sweet and so nice.

I embrace the term 'evangelical,' if by that we mean a belief that we together can actually work for change in the world, caring for the environment, extending to the poor generosity and kindness, a hopeful outlook. That's a beautiful sort of thing.

When there's a terrible illness like AIDS sweeping through, you help people.

My husband is actually the nicest guy in the world. He's my sweetheart and best friend, and one of the things I love best about him is that no matter how terrible I look - and believe me, it can get bad - he makes me feel pretty.