Quotes About Compassion

When I was younger, I played sports and went to camp. As I got older, my parents began to instill in us the importance of giving back to the community, especially those places around the world that are less fortunate than my very privileged life growing up in Los Angeles.

I've been privileged to be able to be a part of some of my girlfriends' lives at their breaking points.

I am pro-expression. I am pro - you know, as long as you don't hurt anyone.

My clients were always poor folks, working folks, people who were in trouble and couldn't afford to pay a whole lot. I found it very difficult to say no to somebody who needed help, so most of my work turned out to be pro bono. It didn't start out that way, but it turned out that way because I never got paid.

Maggie is my sister-in-law, married to my brother David. She is a defense attorney who devotes 25 percent of her practice to pro bono wrongful-incarceration cases.

I'm very much a humanist. I'm very much pro-choice. I'm very much politically correct.

If you're so pro-life, do me a favour: don't lock arms and block medical clinics. If you're so pro-life, lock arms and block cemeteries.

My point is that I am pro-life but I still believe that I do not have a right to force a woman to do anything with her body, the same way that I can't force somebody to come to Jesus Christ.

The heart of man will always be dark. There will always be evil people. The problem is that there is nothing we can humanly do to change them.

My problem is I am Christian, so I think other people must have success, too; it's not about me.

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.

People with problems are not problem people.

I have no problems with gay men or gay women.

No guns but only brotherhood can resolve the problems.

The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'

You know, I think Jesus was famous and also in a lot of trouble because he always chose people over sort of established procedures.

Part of the healing process is sharing with other people who care.

For me, writing became a way of processing not just my own experiences, but the experiences of other people, and their pain.

Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.

The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share.

I think that if everyone knew how meat and dairy was being produced, they wouldn't eat it.

My dad never had a bank balance of more than three lakh and was always extremely compassionate towards his producers.

What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.

Alan Alda and his wife Arlene are two of the most life-affirming people I've ever met. He espoused equal rights for women while producing, writing, acting in and directing 'M*A*S*H'; he used to commute between the set and home because he didn't want to disrupt his kids' schooling.