Quotes About Compassion

Over and over again, I looked family members who had lost loved ones to police violence, I looked them right in the eye and told them, 'Don't worry. We will get justice for your family.'

As a mother and someone who has lost so many family members to cancer, it is important to me to bring awareness to such important causes.

Writing or talking about famine and the world's response to it is not very easy.

If you want to get a dog, please adopt. I know a lot of people want these fancy breeds, but I think it's better to adopt, because there are so many amazing dogs.

I still want to be as approachable and relatable as possible - when I meet fans and they're crying, I'll say, 'Calm down, there's nothing to cry about.'

I've always had issues with factory farming. That was always something that bothered me.

I'm fascinated by female relationships.

I was just fascinated with how everyone else in the world lived, and I was interested in telling their story.

I'm fascinated by the people I grew up with and the mistakes I made - and God, I have screwed up. I like writing about where it all went off course.

I'm so fascinated by how people destroy each other and love each other.

The role of a do-gooder is not what actors call a fat part.

I was a fat girl growing up and had to change schools because kids were so mean.

Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.

I can't stand people who say they've got 'Africa fatigue.'

If someone was born the way she was born, are you going to blame him, or are you going to blame God? Whose fault is that? Nobody's.

But if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they've been brought there by no fault of their own, I don't think you have a heart. We need to be educating these children, because they will become a drag on our society.

When people have been hurt over and over, and rather than compassion or understanding you're given lectures about how it's really all your fault and that no one needs to make amends, you can lose your mind.

Every man has his faults; I have and so have you - you will allow me to say so!

It is not Christian to go against someone. I am in favour of life.

We don't discount that people's fears are their fears.

Feed the dogs. I hate to hear them barking like that.

The L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center has this wonderful program where they take in the youth, feed them, help them learn how to cook, clean, they help them get jobs, help them learn how to save their money, and they have shelters all over the city.

Nobody ever wants to see a guy get hurt, because this is how we feed our families.

Everything I do is like tough love; everything I put out there in the universe is me trying to feed you. I really care.