“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.”

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

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

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

“Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.”

“Like any value, empathy must be acted upon.”

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

“Know all the theories, master all the techniques, but as you touch a human soul be just another human soul.”

“Do things for others and you'll find your self-consciousness evaporating like morning dew.”

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

“Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.”