When you’re in prison, you want to know that you were thought about.

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

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

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.

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

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.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

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.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

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

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

I don’t understand why or how we can bully each other.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

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

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

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

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

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.

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren’t in a very good mood.

Sadly, of course, there is real evil in the world. You watch the news, and you see all of the people suffering and so much cruelty.

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

If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don’t think it’s intelligent, and it’s not sane. So why would you want to support it?

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 answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

I was very worried about my mother, growing up – a lot. I do not want my children to be worried about me.

I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.

The notion that we have even one single veteran living on the streets should be just considered a travesty to all of us.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

I met India Arie, who is one of my favorite artists of all time. It was really sweet; I was broken up with a month before, and she stayed up texting me all night and was helping me through it. Her text message looks like a song of hers. She’s sort of become my fairy godmother.

I’m entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they’re thinking and who they are and who’s hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what’s the story, really?

Standing in support of children is something we should all be able to get behind, regardless of party affiliation.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

Understanding is a two-way street.

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

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

I’m not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Hillary Clinton will always be there for you. And just remember – there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other.

Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on the highest emotional level… Anytime I think about it, it makes me sadder than anything I can think of.

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

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

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.

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.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

We care for each other and care about our family, and we are both working towards the same goal.

I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you’re not alone.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it’s like giving them emotional oxygen.