...made kind by

"Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind."

~ Eric Hoffer

...proud of it?

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. 

-Edith Sitwell, poet (1887-1964)

greatest gift

"The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention."

~ Richard Moss

Pay our debt

We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
-John Buchan, poet, novelist, and politician (1875-1940)

...is worth

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
-Spanish proverb