Quotes About Compassion

No one knows how they would react to a horrible situation until it happens to them.

I learned something through the experiences in my life, and that is that you never judge how someone may be reacting to a situation because you don't know what they may be going through. It's important that you treat people well, and I try to make people feel good about themselves always.

When someone mistreats you, the correct reaction is not to go out and do something to destroy somebody else's property.

When the HIV/AIDS epidemic first appeared, a lot of the reaction was that it's not happening here. It doesn't exist. It's not on the continent of Africa. Then we moved into this other phase, in which it was kind of like, it's everywhere.

Be good to people, be kind to people, show up, read the lines, hit the mark, and go home.

I have a profound resistance to the idea that a reader could say, 'Oh, well, that's her story.' We should all be interested, no matter where we come from, or who our parents are. It's not my province; it's ours. These questions concern us all.

If the reader is rooting for the protagonist, they'll forgive you just about everything else.

I think the key is to give the reader characters they not only care about, but identify with, and to never take away all hope.

As a reader, I much prefer to read a book where people embody all kinds of ideas and everybody is making mistakes.

I'm not interested in forcing my beliefs on my readers.

If we declare ourselves, as readers, to be on the side of life, the question has to be asked what sort of life we are on the side of.

Reading the script, I started feeling very deeply bad for Freddie. Between his friends, his partners, and his woman, he was catching a hard time. 'Freddie's Dead' came to me immediately.

I really care about my readers. I care about anyone who reads my books.

I have no trouble saying, as the copy reads, about how caring nurses are, because it's true.

I really enjoy taking care of people, and I was really ready to have a kid, so I didn't have to sacrifice anything that I didn't want to give up.

All of us who covered the Reagans agreed that President Reagan was personable and charming, but I'm not so certain he was nice. It's hard for me to think of anyone as 'nice' when I hear him say 'The homeless are homeless because they want to be homeless.'

To my mind, a president should care about all people, and he didn't, which is why I will always feel Reagan lacked soul.

Real living is living for others.

People don't know how deep, loving, and caring 'Pac was. He was more than a rapper or an actor: he was a real friend.

I was brought up not to be selfish or self-centered. So if you play somebody who isn't so lovable, you can play that person and no one will turn on you. I don't want to play that person in real life. Because then people won't like me so much.

I'm drawn to people who find themselves on the outside of things. I'm moved by that in real life.

In real life, I know to filter all my jerk opinions and my jerk thoughts and my jerk desires.

Real love is figuring out how someone wants to be loved and loving them in that way.

It's always good to be able to identify with the characters that you're watching and not just easily put them in the bad box or the good box. They're real people that you care about, and you invest in their journey.