Quotes About Compassion

Let us endeavor to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.

My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart — a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.

By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

It is in the heart that the values lie. I wish I could make him understand that a loving heart is riches, and riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't.... The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds upon the heel that crushes it.

On his deathbed Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuse are for all -- the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer someone else up.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right.

The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.

I support allowing gay couples to marry because of - not in spite of - my values. And many of those values are the same ones deeply held by those who do not believe in gay marriage.

For Tolstoy . . . anything that human beings do has its glory. . . . I think he can be said to have hated nothing that ever happened.

If you want to have a friend, then be a friend.

For fifteen cents a day you can feed an African, they eat pennies.

Being a Scientologist, when you drive past an accident... you know you have to do something about it because you know you're the only one that can really help.

Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.

I apologized to her once for spending less time with her, but she blew it off. "You're in love. That makes you actually kind of boring to people who aren't in love. You know, the sane ones.

Blessed are they who hold lively conversations with the helplessly mute, for they shall be called dentists.

Remember what the Bible says: He who is without sin, cast the first rock. And I shall smoketh it.

That's the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.