Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes

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

You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

It is the spread of the good things that vindicates the whole reason we live our lives in networks. If I was always violent to you or gave you germs, you would cut the ties to me and the network would disintegrate. In a deep and fundamental way, networks are connected to goodness, and goodness is required for networks to emerge and spread.

Love is mutually feeding each other, not one living on another like a ghoul.

It helps me when I help people.

Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.

I don't think love is a tricky issue at all. Love is best understood when we share: Share time, energy, food, resources, insights, information, whatever. It's usually thought of as something that exists between two people, but that's just because it's easier to see and feel in the space between them. Each person is sharing a lot with the other.

The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

What I try to do is never to hurt anybody else and figure if I don't, then I'm not likely to get hurt myself.

I find you get out of people what you put into them.

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.

I love being around people who care about me, and I care about them.

One of the things that I miss about Canada is that even the strangers, you have an immediate rapport, there's just an understanding that we're all good people, let's be nice to each other. And Kiwis have that. I find the Kiwis have that.

I want to keep an inner life alive and, with luck, somebody else's, too.

I always think it's a good policy to like the people who like you.

If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.

Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.

In a relationship you want to treat people the way you want to be treated.

Well, I think when we can turn to the person sitting next to us and really see them with kindness and see ourselves reflected back - when there's some dignity and compassion traveling back and forth.

Compassion is a two way street.

I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I'm on stage they're not privileged to see me. It's a privilege for me to see them.

One believes others will do what he will do to himself.

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.