If someone were to pay you ten cents for every kind word you said about people and collect five cents for every unkind word, would you be rich or poor? – Author unknown, quoted by Jacob M. Braude

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. – Abraham Joshua Heschel

A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person. – Dave Barry, “Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn”