empathy Quotes

When BP was not moving fast enough on claims, we told BP to set aside $20 billion in a fund - managed by an independent third party - to help all those whose lives have been turned upside down by the spill.

But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day.

Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I'd worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: 'Don't hide these things from me. I'd rather you ask me these things straight out, and I'll answer all your questions.'

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.