Only by trying on other people's clothes do we find what size we are.

We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.

Be sensitive to the plight of others. You have to know about the tragedies as well as the triumphs, the failures as well as the success.

The problem of suffering is not about something but about someone.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God - if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That's what I think.

Whether you're educated or illiterate, whether you live on the boulevard or in the alley, you're going to catch hell just like I am. We're all in the same boat and we all are going to catch the same hell from the same man. He just happens to be a white man.

And miserable it is to be to others cause of misery...

offices of Love, how we may light'n Each others burden in our share of woe; Since this days Death denounc't, if ought I see, Will prove no sudden, but a slow-pac't evill, A

The sickness of a family member, friend or neighbor is a call to Christians to demonstrate true compassion, that gentle and persevering sharing in another's pain.

Everyone in my family has seen me cry before.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by doubling our joy and dividing our grief.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.