Damon Runyon Quotes

Ellen DeGeneres is brilliant. She's funny, she's warm and she doesn't hurt anybody on her show.

Weighing too much on someone's talent and not someone's personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

... humility + humor = humanity.

The people knew what had made them human. It was not their shortcomings, but their hearts.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

It's great if you're funny or if you can dance, but if you are kind and decent, it comes out your pores.

Jesse Jackson, when I met him, he had an innocence about him which is still very much a part of him today.

I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's very much about style and substance and humor, interest, curiosity and really being smart.

You can be the greatest guy in the world but if you ain't got no heart, you ain't gonna survive.

When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.

Parents: instead of teaching our children to be brave boys or pretty girls, can we maybe just teach them how to be good humans?

I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.

Kindness is the No. 1 quality I look for in a man. You can see in how he treats anyone - from a CEO to a housekeeper - and it's a reflection of how nice a guy is. Funniness and confidence come after that... When a guy approaches me, it's fantastic if he can make me laugh.

I've been treated with the utmost respect by the whitest of white guys, and I've been treated bad by the whitest of white persons. I've been treated bad by the blackest of black persons and treated good by the blackest of black persons. So at the end of the day, I know it's about humanity - do you have a good heart or a bad heart?

Image isn't everything, It's what comes from your heart, and what you learn and what you say and how you act that means more than anything.

It's our insides that make us who we are, that allow us to dream and wonder and feel for others. That's what's essential. That's what will always make the biggest difference in our world.

I don't want to be remembered as a good goalkeeper. I want to be remembered as a great person.

My Father taught me how to be a man – and not by instilling in me a sense of machismo or an agenda of dominance. He taught me that a real man doesn’t take, he gives; he doesn’t use force, he uses logic; doesn’t play the role of trouble-maker, but rather, trouble-shooter; and most importantly, a real man is defined by what’s in his heart, not his pants.

When you see a man led to prison say in your heart, "Mayhap he is escaping from a narrower prison." And when you see a man drunken say in your heart, "Mayhap he sought escape from something still more unbeautiful.

I've learned much, Father, and this above all: that no station in life is above any other, if it's occupied by someone with a good heart.

Your humanity is your instrument.

We can bring a heart of understanding and compassion to a world that needs it so much.

To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.

My Brain and My Heart are my Temples. My true Religion is Kindness.

No one is born with hate in their heart. Hate is something that has been taught. It is not an innate survival skill that we need; It is a form of stupidity that penetrates our minds and will eventually destroy us.