Quotes About Compassion

My grandma blows my mind. To me, she exemplifies what a loving, accepting Christian is.

During my grandma's funeral, I looked over once and saw my mom crying, and I felt so bad for her.

My grandmother was a very charitable woman, and my mother grew up that way.

My grandmother knew nothing about sports. She still didn't even when I went to the NBA. She never really cared too much about sports. She only cared about me being a good person.

The right to love is granted to anyone.

In difficult times, it's so hard to look around and to see what to be grateful for.

There's nothing more gratifying than making someone laugh in today's time when everybody is grappling with some issue or the other.

Today, the news is scandals; that is news, but the many children who don't have food - that's not news. This is grave. We can't rest easy while things are this way.

I'm a great believer in giving people a chance.

But the reason America is a great country, the reason is because our compassion is in our laws. And when we live by those laws and we treat everybody equally under the law, that's when people feel good about being Americans.

You can forgive yourself a great deal.

I care a great deal about humanity! I care. I really care.

I don't love great ideas. I love the little human being.

I was never involved in any fights in high school. I'm glad I wasn't. I'm not very big, and I don't find great joy in cuts and bruises.

To be a great leader, you firstly have to like people. If you don't like people, at the end of the day they will figure this out and you can't lead them too well.

What I learned from Barack Obama the person is that you can be a great leader and a good person at the same time and that the way to be the best kind of leader is to be decent to the people around you.

There are moments when great music can be the greatest service and charity.

There are a lot of great people everywhere. And there are also a lot of not so great people.

I'm interested in little people. 'The little, great people' is how I would put it, because suffering expands people.

I like second chances. I've given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive.

Getting people to come play my 'Darius and Friends Show' was so easy because it's for St. Jude, and that's a great thing.

The great thing about modern feminism is that women can define what it means to them: it can mean being ambitious, it can mean being emotional, it can mean being sensitive and compassionate and also a leader. It can mean all those things.

I believe there are some great things that I've taken from the Bible in terms of loving the world and trying to be kind. There are a lot of good things to take from the Bible, and I like to think I try to apply them to my life.

The way forward is always found through greater respect for the equal rights of all.