"I ran back up the stairs just to make sure my sister was okay even though I was scared of what I might find! She matters to me I had to save her."

"Whenever I see someone alone I make sure to go ask them if they need a friend. I learned that from the Kindness Bench at school!"

"When my cousin needed an ear to hear her cry tears of helplessness, I picked up the phone every time."

“Instead of reassuring him or minimizing his misgivings, she listened … ‘I’m going to absorb this thing with you. I’m going to mirror your seriousness about it.’"