In someone's darkest hour your simple act of kindness may imitate the sunrise, and to sad eyes you become their only source of light.

On a grim and dismal day that shattered my last ounce of confidence, I broke down and whimpered, “I’m awful and hideous and incompetent and boring and utterly useless.” And then you grinned at me and said, “That’s okay.

Kindness is going out of your way to perform favors regarded as wonderful by the recipient.

If we simply imagined that everyone who crossed our path was living out his or her very last day on Earth, we might treat people as kindly as we ought to each day they lived.

Out of all the magic words in existence, kind words produce the most powerful transformation spells.

When gossip starts, be deaf.