Quotes About Compassion

The smallest deed is greater than the grandest intention.

When I look into the crowd, I see young and old, black and white - it's amazing that I'm able to connect with so many different kinds of people.

I haven't stopped looking for the good in people. I've just accepted the fact that I'm not always going to find it.

Good news doesn't necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man.

I don't think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things I'm concerned about are at the top of other people's agendas - not right now, when America is going through such a recession and people are suffering across the board financially. But I think all that will change.

Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

In time we often become one with those we once failed to understand.

Within that moment was trust, compassion, and our mutual sense of irony. He was carrying death within him and I was carrying life. We were both aware of that, I know.

Those who have suffered understand suffering and thereby extend their hand.

William Burroughs was simultaneously old and young. Part sheriff, part gumshoe. All writer. He had a medicine chest he kept locked, but if you were in pain he would open it. He did not like to see his loved ones suffer. If you were infirm he would feed you. He'd appear at your door with a fish wrapped in newsprint and fry it up. He was inaccessible to a girl but I loved him anyway.

The thing is, it's not uncool to worry about people who seem like they're going on the wrong path. There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.

Will the children of the future never taste the sweetness of brotherhood?

If I've learned one thing in life, it's not to be so judgmental of other people.

I really want to adopt a child... I want to be called 'Mom.' It really is the most beautiful word in the English language.

It's not that successful people are givers; it is that givers are successful people.

Good and true friends ask what wrong and how your doing.

It was in that way that she has best served God.

Today we see studies on mentally retarded children as monstrous.

Never use hope to hurt someone.

Because a person wants to know that there's a person in the world who would do something if they could." She takes a ragged breath. "Even if they can't.

If it has the potential to do good, then we should do it

Betty died of a broken heart. Some people laugh when they hear that phrase, but that's because they don't know anything about the world. People die of broken hearts. It happens every day, and it will go on happening to the end of time.

To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.