Life is mostly froth and bubble; Two things stand like stone: - Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into a flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

Kindness is the kingpin of success in life, it is the prime factor in overcoming friction and making the human machinery run smoothly.

Kindness has always mattered to our father. He taught us to honor people, and he has encouraged us since before I can remember to empathize with human suffering. When I was a teenage he'd say, 'Ann, go do something that helps people. Do something of service. It will always make you feel good about your life.'

If anyone is in need, just lend a hand and help them out.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. [Ed. note: This is true of many values, including kindness.]s

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Isn't it amazing how often we can touch someone's life, and enrich our own, by a very simple act? Kindness, pass it on...what a wonderful way in which to pattern our lives!

Give to another human being without the expectation of a return.