Gary Payton Quotes

What you realize when you work in the philanthropic world is that people aren't just numbers: they are families with real needs and you need to make your judgments with kindness and thoughtfulness in order to serve those needs.

Zach Levi has a huge heart.

That's the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.

Philanthropy is natural. For a mother, taking care of her children is natural. If I am rich, I take care of the poor, like a mother would.

Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and to sense what will truly serve others.

The question of bread for myself is a material question, but the question of bread for my neighbor is a spiritual question.

I don't think I'm an unkind person, I don't think my books are unkind, and I don't think my readers are unkind.

To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.

Having felt people's love and support first hand through difficult moments in my life makes me feel it's our responsibility to help one another.

Look for a sweet person. Forget rich.

The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones.

Day after day, ordinary people become heroes through extraordinary and selfless actions to help their neighbors.

Kindness is a sort of love without being love.

The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.

I want somebody like my mom. My mom is a very charitable woman. She's the sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for the second sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for honesty and a big heart.

Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.

One of the things I've never been accused of is not caring about people.

People were incredibly kind to our family and went out of their way to help.

The problem with compassion is that it is not photogenic.

The simple act of caring is heroic.

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

I would like to be remembered as somebody who cared a great deal about people.

That was all very nice of them. They didn't have to do anything because I wasn't officially involved at all.

Mo'Nique is so full of love. I've been describing her as the tree in 'Pocahontas.' She's so wise and loving. She is just everything.

Love has an enormous number of connotations, and if somebody is a person who does kind acts as a way of life, if they are generally disposed to being caring and loving and doing things for other people, then kindness is a much stronger word than we make it out to be.