Quotes About Empathy

We as black people are not a monolithic bunch. We are not all the same, and neither are women. Instead, we are all individuals who have these extraordinary stories to tell and share with each other that will enrich all of our lives and help us all become more ourselves and better people.

That's my message: I'm not alone, and neither is anyone else.

Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing.

You have to be great friends and make each other laugh. We laugh a lot and neither is jealous of the other.

It's neither my job nor within my capabilities to save people. But a book sure can try.

Before anyone else, women need to accept that neither does life stop, nor does it change for those few days in a month.

Twenty-seven years incarcerated, his jailer became his best friend. So if you need an example on how we should act and how we should be, then Nelson Mandela is the man to follow.

If you're a nerd, just be a nerd. That's way better than a nerd who's trying to be a hipster. And if you are going to tell jokes, don't direct them at other people. Not only is it not funny, but it's also mean.

When I was a boy, I was called a nerd all the time - because I didn't like sports, I loved to read, I liked math and science, I thought school was really cool - and it hurt a lot. Because it's never OK when a person makes fun of you for something you didn't choose. You know, we don't choose to be nerds.

I think every time I can find a story that touches that human nerve, and even sometimes makes you cry, I think that I've found something that I'll like very much.

There's a lot of good fans out there, but there's also a lot of bad - I don't want to say bad people, but a lot of people who just want to try to get on your nerves and stuff like that, man.

I wasn't born with nerves. You have to take yourself out of the equation and think about everyone else - you're the entertainer.

If you say you've had a nervous breakdown or things aren't right mentally, people run away from you. They think you're from 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest,' you know.

People make a lot of jokes about the empty nest. Let me tell you, it is no laughing matter. It is really hard.

I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.

Wrestling is about connecting with the audience. Giving them a reason to care. Same reason I binge watch series on Netflix, because the stories and characters get me invested.

People care about others in their immediate network.

One of the things The WB has about it that a lot of other networks don't is they lead with their heart.

Our brains have been designed to blur the line between self and other. It is an ancient neural circuitry that marks every mammal, from mouse to elephant.

Music gave me that neutral lane to relate with everyone.

I am not a great believer in the idea that journalistic neutrality means you have to abandon the people you talk to.

Neutrality is for referees in a football game. You have to take a stand. The really, really good journalists always take a stand with those who have no power, with those who have no rights, and with those who have no voice.

Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget.

I personally will never forget that people are more important than buildings.