The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me. Read Summary
Why should Americans go on with their lives as normal, worrying about calories and hair loss, while other people are worrying about where they are going to get their next piece of bread? Read Summary
I don't agree that everyone should agree with everyone's lifestyle. I think that some people aren't going to agree, but I think that when you're mean and when you ridicule people it's a sign of your own insecurities. Read Summary
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. Read Summary
Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals. Read Summary
I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us to escape our lives, in giving us empathy and in creating the world that we live in. Read Summary
Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.' Read Summary
A true man hates no one. Read Summary
The greatness of a man is measured by the way he treats the little man. Compassion for the weak is a sign of greatness. Read Summary
I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world. Read Summary
If people are cool, then they are not stressed. I pity the fool that don't be cool. Read Summary
Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go. Read Summary
Each one of them is Jesus in disguise. Read Summary
If you're playing somebody who is not you, then you can imagine that you are that person. You can feel like he feels, move like he moves, look like he looks - in your own mind. Read Summary
I'm just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarass easily. Read Summary
Before I would hurt a child, I would slit my wrists. Read Summary
I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good. Read Summary
I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it. Read Summary
The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God - if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That's what I think. Read Summary
People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other. Read Summary