Quotes About Compassion

I don't want to make people hate Israel or hate Palestine or hate Jews or hate Muslims.

There is a famous saying: 'It's hard to be a Jew.' It's also hard to be a Palestinian. I know that.

I am keen and anxious for the safety of both the Jews and the Palestinians.

I think women need to be babied and pampered and loved and cuddled.

It shouldn't take a pandemic for us to take notice that millions of people can't afford a single sick day.

I'm not homophobic, I'm not a bigot, I'm not pandering to hatred.

I used to panic about everything - family, friends... I'd think, 'Is that person okay? Can I fix this?'

Honestly, I don't buy papers or the weeklies. I think when something messy does happen, you just need your closest friends and family all around you, and it's nothing to do with anyone else.

He who aspires to paradise should learn to deal with people with kindness.

Even if the world outside is destroying itself and fragmented and paranoid and fearful, the job of the artist is to embrace and hold people and say, 'It's OK, be safe here.'

He who pardons easily invites offense.

We can't let ourselves stop believing in Second Chances for everyone. That's why my role on the Board of Pardons is so important to me.

Even the gods pardon someone who makes a mistake.

Not everyone's a perfect parent, but we do learn, and we grow from that. I'm not trying to be harsh on my family because it does make them sad to think back about how they used to be and some of their choices.

It's really difficult seeing your role model or your parent cry.

You know, I think becoming a parent has really changed the way that I feel impacted by what's going on in the world around me.

If you are fortunate in life, age and knowledge breed compassion. And as I have gotten older, I came to understand, that a person's sexual orientation has absolutely nothing to do with their ability to be a good parent.

No parent should have their child die before he or she does.

We must do everything in our power to keep families together, and to use common sense in our immigration laws. Children deserve better than to lose a parent because of an inflexible law.

It takes a lot to become a foster parent.

I'd definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child's dreams. I'd just watch and nurture and guide them. I have the blueprints of what not to do... I think I'd be a good parent, actually.

If I did have the impulse to be a parent, I would adopt - or foster.

Any parent knows how to be the ideal parent.

My father showed me so much love. He showed my brother so much love. He just, he had a rough life. You know, he grew up in a boys home in the Bronx. He didn't really know his own family. So I couldn't hold it against him that he didn't know how to parent. He didn't know how to be the perfect husband. But he loved as much as he could.