She's not mean. She's just hurt. An animal that's gentle and friendly growls when it's injured. Remember that when people act ugly toward you. They're usually in some kind of pain.

I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.

Difficult to "move on" from any site of suffering if that suffering goes unacknowledged and undescribed.

He wanted her in that room with him giving him the balance he was losing, the ballast and counterweight to the stone of sorrow New York City had given him.

The endless, unrelieved suffering of so many who are unable to deliver themselves is a reality we can no longer ignore.

Remember Luke, the suffering of one man is the suffering of all. Distances are irrelevant to injustice. If not stopped soon enough, evil will eventually reaches out to engulf all men, whether they have opposed it or ignored it.

Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

I look just like the girl next door ... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.

There are people who have the capacity to imagine themselves as someone else, there are people who have no such capacity (when the lack is extreme, we call them psychopaths), and there are people who have the capacity but choose not to exercise it.

We tiptoed around each other like heartbreaking new friends.

Nevertheless we understood each other on all levels of madness...