Quotes About Empathy

Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or what have you. It's a language aside from the language they have with strangers. I've always been maybe an abuser of alliteration, but I've always loved it and I like how those words sound together.

I was a very good friend of Rajiv Gandhi, and I had affection for Sonia as his wife.

I've never heard of the wife looking up the mistress to become friends, but I like it.

I've tried to recognize my wife's individuality, her personality, her desires, her background, her ambitions.

I'm a much nicer person since my wife died. I found out what pain is, so on that level I'm much nicer.

I just want to say, that if Jesus were alive, what would he be doing? Well, he would probably be accepting and loving people how they're made. And I always say this and it's really the truth. If being 4'11 was a sin, what would I do? Well, I could wear heels and I could add a wig.

It's nice when the fans wear wigs like my hair and show they are behind me.

My wife says that I become different once I start to work with animals. My movements become different, my mood is different. It involves letting everything fall behind you, becoming intuitive in your dealings with wild creatures in a way that bypasses reason. Sometimes it's more like a dance than anything else.

It's a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just relating to one another.

I have always brought home stray animals - everything from squirrels to wild rabbits to foxes and turtles.

Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.

We decided that how we react to and treat those fellow mortals, wild and domestic, tells us more about ourselves than, perhaps, some of us want to know.

As wild and raunchy as Richard Pryor was, people related to his honesty because they found something in their life that they understood.

Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.

Those who believe in the importance of serving others should lead the way by fighting against the temptation we all have, and maybe especially as we age, to close in upon ourselves.

Living and working in the centre of a city, one cannot but be affected by the sight of the homeless on the streets. They are almost an expected feature of life in a big city, and it is tempting to think there is little or nothing that can, or even should, be done about it. This is not so.

When I see the Ten Most Wanted Lists... I always have this thought: If we'd made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn't be wanted now.

When you look at a family, if you have a family that never interacts with each other, never has strong conversation with each other, never has disagreements, nine times out of ten you have a very cold family and they're not going to be, at the end, they're not going to be close.

We all get so excited about the big events, but when there's an animal involved, it's ten times harder.

You can make more friends in a month by being interested in them than in ten years by trying to get them interested in you.

Somebody told me a story where they met a celebrity when they were six years old, and the celebrity was really mean. They still remember that to this day. I never want some 22-year-old in ten years' time to say, 'I met Madelaine Petcsh, and it ruined my idea of celebrities,' so I'm always aware.

But we're not this one stupid thing we said three years ago, or ten years ago, or even last week. We seem to judge people as if they are.

I'm incredibly tenacious, but I also try so hard in my work to really listen to people and address their point of view. In the end, I always remember who I'm an advocate for.

Without hurting anybody, we all tend to laugh at others' discomfort. When someone slips on a banana skin and falls it's funny.