Quotes About Compassion

It was really really neat to make the movie because there were mentally challenged actors in the movie. So that was really really cool to work with them and they were always really happy, and they made everybody really happy on the set too.

I do not think that condemning people who murder and killing them necessarily sends out the right message.

What makes someone sexy in my mind is who they are. It's not necessarily how they look.

We kept a broad audience, and we didn't make fun of people who had necessarily made mistakes in their life and burned them to the ground. We made fun of a commercial or a movie or ourselves.

Everyone is usually screwed up in some way and that is usually where the work comes in - figuring out how to make it believable and make it real to present someone's problems that you don't necessarily actually know anything about.

I try to speak of a love that not necessarily romantic. I think there is so much love between people and so much love people want to give but it's harder and harder these days to show that, to celebrate that, you know?

I didn't realize it until I was grown how necessary it is for good people to be tough.

Gifts are an important and necessary part of our collective lives. We need to give and we need to allow others to give.

As far as same-sex marriage, I really would want to think about that a lot more given the fact that my focus would be always on the child. The innocent should not be given more even burdens than what is absolutely necessary.

You have to live with the necessities of other people.

I lost my son in late 2011. He had been totally incapacitated from his neck down for the last eight years of his life, but his mind was alive and brilliant in those years. He even wrote a book, 'Allegheny Mountain,' lying at home in his hospital bed.

What I always do is go with the stories that put up the hair on the back of my neck or make me cry or make me laugh.

At the end of the day, no one asks a woman, 'Do you need a neck rub? Do you need a drink, honey?'

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

For me, being a lawyer means to help those in need.

As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.

Canada has always been there to help people who need it.

It's just been so heartwarming to see my clothes on people in wheelchairs and people needing physical support.

An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.

From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs.

I think this world needs a little more hugging in their lives.

If we have a right to healthcare, we should also have a right to the most fundamental of human needs: shelter.

Although there are people saying I'm putting on a show, I'm hoping more will emulate my 'performance.' If more people did, more needy people would get help.

My family has always encouraged me to think of the needy.