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

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

“You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.”

“Don't for God's sake speak as saint to sinner, but as you yourself to me myself - poor me!”

“How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us.”

“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”

“He who does not want to understand the Other has no right to say that what the Other does or says makes no sense.”

“It is always so, when we are unhappy we feel more strongly the unhappiness of others; our feeling is not shattered, but...”

“In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I als...”