Paul F. Tompkins Quotes

You know what the secret is? It's so simple. We love one another. We're nice to one another. Do you know how rare that is? - Carmen

Why can't we just be nice? It's like, we grow up, and then we get right back into high school.

I don't like being negative to people who are so nice to me.

Just be nice, take genuine interest in the people you meet, and keep in touch with people you like. This will create a group of people who are invested in helping you because they know you and appreciate you.

Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men's hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words.

If you treat people with dignity, respect and friendliness, you can turn enemies into friends. An enemy is nothing but a friend in disguise.

Here's what I would want for humanity, because this is what I have come to see is true: it's so simple when we listen to people.

If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.

What's important to me is people just being people.

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.

It's a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just relating to one another.

In our ordinary experiences with other people, we know that approaching each other in a machinelike way gets us into trouble.

I love human beings. I believe that there is so much to learn from every person you meet, including a child.

It helped me when I decided that we're on this planet to learn to live together and get along.

Wherever I go meeting the public... spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing.

Yeah, because what it all boils down to is at the end of the day, we are all riding on the same boat and we have to learn how to deal with each other. I think that the music and what we do in our actions is what can kind of bring us together, hopefully.

I wish I know a law that would make people love on another because I would sign it.

The crucial part of a citizens' culture is learning to correct others without mistreating them or generating aggression. We need to create a society in which civility rules over cynicism and apathy.

We emphasize negativity and violence in the media because that's what grabs everybody's attention, but in the real world, it's mostly people being very cooperative and caring and connected and kind. That's the norm of human experience. And yet, what gets our attention is the very opposite.

I thank God I don't have a problem with any person. Nobody wants to have a problem with another person. I don't want it either.

I don't understand why people aren't a little more generous with each other.

You have to be the nice one!

Peace will be realized only by forging bonds of trust between people at the deepest level, in the depths of their very lives.

Maybe the purpose of being here, wherever we are, is to increase the durability and occasions of love among and between peoples.

Kindness works simply and perseveringly; it produces no strained relations which prejudice its working; strained relations which already exist it relaxes. Mistrust and misunderstanding it puts to flight, and it strengthens itself by calling forth answering kindness. Hence it is the furthest reaching and the most effective of all forces.