Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.

I'm going to tell you the most important secret of human life. The most critical need of the human soul is to be kind.

My world. My rules. I would command everyone to do so many things! Be kind. Oh, I would command everyone to stop buying tabloids!

We do sometimes pity creatures that have none of the feeling either for themselves or others. 

Well-written novels make you more empathetic towards other people. You can identify with someone who isn't you. You can change your identity. A 14-year-old boy can become Anna Karenina. It is a miracle.

This precious thing of empathy and love and understanding is something we have to hold and appreciate and protect.

How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.

The compassion of Christlike friends deeply touches and changes our lives.

Some relationships get easier as you get older, depending on what sort of person you are. I don't think I've got any better at them.

I've been working seriously in giving fashion a place that it deserves.

13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good behavior his works in the humility of wisdom.

Love passionately bears with others for as long as patience is needed; love doesn't demand others to be like itself, but is so focused on the needs of others that it bends over backwards to become what others need it to be; love is not ambitious, self-centered, or so consumed with itself that it never thinks of the needs or desires that others possess.…