I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

It’s not about changing people; it’s sometimes about changing a situation. How can we build an even better situation for them?

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Information helps you to see that you’re not alone. That there’s somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who’ve all longed and lost, who’ve all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you’re not really any different from everyone else.

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn’t say I lived in a ghetto; I’d say I lived in the ‚hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

There are people who want to make men’s lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

I’m not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they’re going through. I don’t know if that’s the healthiest thing, but it’s the truth.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

I rely on other people every day of my life.

The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one’s experiences in common.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world. This is the most beautiful quality in a revolutionary.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.

We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people’s throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent.

Don’t throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.

Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the people who are on the front line.

I advocate that every woman be a part of a circle, and a circle that meets at least once a month, or if you can’t do that, once every two months or every four months.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

I hate letting my teammates down. I know I’m not going to make every shot. Sometimes I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don’t feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win.

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.

What’s important for my daughter to know is that… if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

What I remember as a child is that other kids didn’t care about suffering. I always did.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that’s something that we should think about.

We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that’s the mercy you’re going to be receiving.

When I ask OGs why there’s so much division in the streets, nobody never really knows. But you know one thing that everybody always mention? A woman.

It’s amazing if you just listen to people. They tell you all the time things that you can do for them, without even realizing what they’re doing. I’ve learned to take notice of those things and if it’s something that I feel God wants me to do, then I try to do that to add joy to their life.

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

There’s pros and cons of a big church. Cons is I don’t get to know everybody, I don’t get to go to their ballgame, I don’t get to marry everybody, but the pros are you get all this community, 800 ushers come in to serve, getting there at 7 in the morning on their day off and coming in on Saturday to make all those wafers.

I’m a people pleaser. I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse.

Every day or two, I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which, taken in homeopathic doses, was really as refreshing in its way as the rustle of leaves and the peeping of frogs.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

Respect the burden.

We don’t get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That’s when you can get more creative in solving problems.

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

Hate has no place in the house of God.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

I gave ‚em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I’d have done the same thing.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.

If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It’s what you learn.

I knew Billy Wilder socially and would have loved to work with him.