Harry Mathews Quotes

Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

We are all neighbors. And we must love neighbors as ourselves.

Maybe one of you can enlighten me, but I just don't understand why it is so hard to be kind to one another?

I like people.

I love people - it is not the fashion, it is the people in fashion I love.

When people are nice to me, I'm nice to them.

I think more important than law is the hearts of people.

I know it sounds cliched, but if we just treated each other as we'd like to be treated ourselves, we'd all be doing a lot better.

Most people are nice and just want to have a chat.

I'm a goodhearted person. I interact with people all the time.

Everybody should be normal. Everybody should be nice. I think they go hand in hand, and that to me is the default setting.

Sometimes, quite out of the blue, sport will throw up a tender moment, when hostility ceases and an opponent is acknowledged.

I love people. I enjoy people.

Where there is no human connection, there is no compassion. Without compassion, then community, commitment, loving-kindness, human understanding, and peace all shrivel. Individuals become isolated, the isolated turn cruel, and the tragic hovers in the forms of domestic and civil violence. Art and literature are antidotes to that.

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.

Meredith Vieira warms my heart.

Nice goes much further than mean.

Trying to learn to be a good man is like learning to play tennis against a wall. You are only a good man - a competent, capable, interesting and lovable man - when you're doing it for, or with, other people.

The fact is, there's good people everywhere. That's what I try and show in my stand-up: good people everywhere. All it takes is one person to mess it up.

What motivates me is connecting with people and making everybody feel loved.

I can be nice - I don't need to be rude for no reason.

We are sometimes so overawed by flamboyance and machismo that we forget to ask ourselves how we treat others.

I try to be friendly to everyone.

I don't love great ideas. I love the little human being.