For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

If you deny people their own voice, you’ll have no idea of who they were.

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.

The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.

It’s so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Learning to live for others isn’t something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

I’ve been a huge fan of Chris Martin forever; it’d be awesome to work with him. He’s really kind, and he’s been really encouraging when we’ve met.

Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.

My readers – and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

I’m actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people – more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true – in certain rare, isolated cases.

I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person’s shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.

‚Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.

The happiest people I know as a nation are the Burmese; their brightness and cheeriness are proverbial. Kindness to animals is one of their greatest ‚weaknesses‘; no Burmese will kill an animal, even if it is to put it out of pain.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‚What are you doing for others?‘

Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people’s progress.

One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed – and they’re, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.

A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good, some are not, and you can’t be naive.

We seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how far we have yet to go in this task.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

I have no human feelings.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

I have a big gay and lesbian following and they’ve been very loyal and kind to me.

I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinner table and talk to them about their mother who has cancer or their child who is struggling in school, and their fears about watching their lives go by, I think we’re all the same.

Not only do I think being nice and kind is easy but being kind, in my opinion, is important.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

I have to be in tune. All the time. I have to be in tune with my husband, where he is, how he’s feeling. I have to be in tune with where my family is.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity’s small change in general society.