The American people have not become heartless.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

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.

If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

You can see neurosis from below – as a sickness – as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.

The white man is destroying the world.

Make no mistake about why these babies are here – they are here to replace us.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

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

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope… It is not a reflection of all religious people.

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

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

The kindness that’s been shown to me, by doctors as well as my family and my friends, it’s really saved my life.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

If you’re nice to me I’ll never write anything bad about you.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

I think that people are tired. They’re tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

Respect the burden.

God’s dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

I’m not a reality-TV kind of guy. But it’s almost like we’re living in a reality show. Every day in this country, everybody keeps worrying about the deterioration of America, and it’s like a big reality show.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

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.

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.

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.

Transforming yourself into a deep listener will not only prove more amusing as you open your mind to their mind, but you will gain the most invaluable lessons about human psychology.

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.

In Japan, the writers have made up a literary community, a circle, a society. I think 90 percent of Japan’s writers live in Tokyo. Naturally, they make a community. There are groups and customs, and so they are tied up in a way.

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

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

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.

The dinosaurs aren’t remembered for much more than their bones. When humanity’s gone, what do we give to this little planet that we’re on, and what could we do collectively, removing the pride?

Every loss of life is terrible.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

Look, the American people are smart.

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

I am the most helpful and open up doors for everyone and I like to share.

If anything, we should feel sorry for the people who want us to feel bad about ourselves, because they are the ones struggling for approval. In middle school, bullies tortured other kids because they thought it would make people like them more.

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

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

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.

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.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far – the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We’re obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.