Herbie Hancock Quotes

Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.

The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.

The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world's busy life and become more interested in people than in things.

There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people.

With our love, we could save the world.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.

We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.

Our God who created all of us is the God who calls all of us to care for one another. I think that's going to be one of the big, big challenges of the future, helping refocus on the needs of others.

The noblest art is that of making others happy.

Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy's going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.

If we don't spend our time on this earth looking out for one another, what are we really doing with our lives?

One of the greatest gifts in life is giving time and giving love. It helps me to stay grateful and happy.

'Les Miserables', the book, 'Les Miserables', the musical - it's about giving; it's about goodness. It's about compassion and love.

Try to love others and serve others and hopefully find those who love and serve you in return.

To be rich is to give; to give nothing is to be poor; to live is to love; to love nothing is to be dead; to be happy is to devote oneself; to exist only for oneself is to damn oneself, and to exile oneself to hell.

Never refuse any who ask you for help; if your pockets are empty, give them hope. Your every action must be born of kindness, your every word spoken with love. Live as God would have you live, and others will be inspired to do the same.