“On some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we...”

“The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.”

“Don't worry— you see, to some you are magic.”

“If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive.”

“Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves,As souls only understand souls.”

“If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to dis...”

“The way to understand any enemy is to realize that, from his perspective, he is not a villain but a hero.”

“Respect, I think, always implies imagination - the ability to see one another, across our inevitable differences, as liv...”

“Alas, Siddhartha, I see you suffering, but you're suffering a pain at which one would like to laugh, at which you'll soo...”

“I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.”

“Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.”

“Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.”