Sam Walter Foss Quotes

I just like people. I'll hold a conversation at a gas station. It's not about the fame and the fortune, I just like people.

There is a bedrock decency to people in the Midwest. They are thoughtful and ready to help you if something needs to be done.

Obviously, people in Texas have big hearts.

What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.

Don't we all want what's best for each other?

… the prince of good fellows

I actually really love people.

It's a beautiful thing, the desire to help a fellow human who is maybe in a rough spot.

Loving kindness is the spirit of friendship toward yourself and others.

I'm a random guy. I shake a hand and make a friend. I don't do egotistical things.

Be good to others, that will protect you against evil.

I know my mother has always looked at strangers as friends.

People in Tulsa are totally friendly; the crowds are very nice.

Wherever I go, people are so kind and so lovely and so warm and show their best self. So I feel very lucky.

I love people. I was born loving people.

This generosity that has been offered to the United States says very much about the Venezuelan spirit.

Southern people are bigger-hearted and kinder than I had any right to expect.

Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about the tenor of relationships within a religious community that makes it the best tutorial in citizenship and good neighborliness.

The Iraqi people are some of the warmest people you'll meet in your life. They are extremely receptive to strangers. Their hospitality is immense.

I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.

The man who practises unselfishness, who is genuinely interested in the welfare of others, who feels it a privilege to have the power to do a fellow-creature a kindness - even though polished manners and a gracious presence may be absent - will be an elevating influence wherever he goes.

The practice of charity will bind us - will bind all men in one great brotherhood.

I would say I'm a nice person, and I take pride in the fact that I treat everyone really well, so there's no reason for anyone to ever come at me because I only want the best for everybody else.

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.