It is imperative that compassion for the suffering people of Cuba not be lost, and humanitarian exceptions to the U.S. embargo be allowed to go forward.

There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.

Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering.

A delay does not serve well the North Korean people.

The term compassion means shared suffering. You develop compassion by knowing what it is like to suffer.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.