empathy Quotes

If you write fiction, you have to love your characters. It's like your family. You don't have to like them, but you have to love them.

Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar.

If you have an impulse to kindness, act on it.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

We're so much more likely to feel sympathy for an animal than another person; thus, the best fiction uses animals to define truly humane behavior.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

I think the world's always a better place if people are filled with understanding.

No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.

He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.