I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.

You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can’t be entertained – or people who are afraid. You can’t entertain a man who has no food.

I have no human feelings.

When we’re looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don’t think anybody has held this job who hasn’t felt personally responsible for those being killed.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

Occasionally I’ve seen children become heavy-handed and insensitive when dealing with their aging parents, and it only caused resentment and hard feelings.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

What I have in common with the character in ‚Truman‘ is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.

If I’m in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person’s side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

There is only one way… to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

One of the things I’ve never been accused of is not caring about people.

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.

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

Some people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn’t happen. If that’s the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be able to be comfortable in uncertainty.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

I have a collective sense of suffering.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

A good thing to remember is somebody’s got it a lot worse than we do.

It undoubtedly feels nice when you are being appreciated and you get complimented by girls. Who doesn’t like that? Having said that, I don’t take it as any pressure.

Ultimately, I’m not doing that much. I’m only doing what a human being who feels wants to do – in my way, without stepping out of my flow, while staying in my lane. Without, I guess, boring people.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

I’ve learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely.

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

I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.

Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

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.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

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

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

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.

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

All cruelty springs from weakness.

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

People love conspiracy theories.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

I look after people.

I’m pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people’s bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

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.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

When I walk outside, people have something to say about it.

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.

Luckily for me, people don’t scream at me that much in my everyday life.