Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You could get used to each other, get so habituated that you could speak their words right along with them, but you never know why other people said what they said or did what they did, because they never even know themselves. Nobody understands anybody.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.

What dooms our best efforts to cultivate empathy and compassion is always, of course, other people.

We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.