I can’t read the newspaper without crying. I’m easily affected by horrible events, you see.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

I go on The Daily Beast. The Daily Beast is one of the websites that I check out.

Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.

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

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.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

It’s a very confusing era that we’re in.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

I remember when I was younger, and in school, our teachers showed us films of plastic in the ocean, starving polar bears and so on. I cried through all the movies. My classmates were concerned when they watched the film, but when it stopped, they started thinking about other things. I couldn’t do that. Those pictures were stuck in my head.

I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.

I don’t think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

Many people look at me and think they know me but they don’t at all. This is the real me. I am a humble person, a feeling person. A person who cares about others, who wants to help others.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

A lot of people cry and complain and put their hand out and beg. It never goes well.

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I’m a human being, too. And I’m on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

It’s hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I’m talking to them.

I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.

We need to, you know, restore people. 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 people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

The most violent show on TV is the six o’clock news.

If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That’s not going to happen if you care only about yourself.

Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

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.

I am for people. I can’t help it.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Sooner or later we’re all someone’s dog.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

We just cannot worry about ourselves.

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

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

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

Oh, I’ve always been very… Emotional. ‚Hypersensitive‘ is what they call it, I think.

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

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn’t educate America if they started at 6:30.

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

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

I’m an emotional person.

Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

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.

Certainly I’ll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I’ve gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

I don’t think that much about my relationship with my mother and what it did to me. I sometimes feel terrible regret about her, what her life must have been like. Often, when I’m enjoying something, I think of how meager her rewards were and how much courage, in a way, she needed to go on living.

We’re a blip in the existence of the universe, and we’re constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.

When I was two, a dragonfly flew near me. A man knocked it to the ground and trod on it. I remember crying because I’d caused the dragonfly to be killed.

You never make fun of anybody with a club foot or a withered arm, but it’s open season on anybody who stutters.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.