It is our uniqueness that gives freshness and vitality to a relationship.

In good relationships, we are happy to grow as the other person becomes part of us and who we are.

You can't build a relationship with everybody in the room when you don't care about anybody in the room.

It takes discipline and compassion to awaken the divine in ourselves long enough to recognize the divine in another.

Strong hearts and helpful hands are needed, and, fortunately, we have them in every part of our beloved country.

Care more for the individual patient than for the special features of the disease. . . . Put yourself in his place . . . The kindly word, the cheerful greeting, the sympathetic look -- these the patient understands.

Is it not the great end of religion, and, in particular, the glory of Christianity, to extinguish the malignant passions; to curb the violence, to control the appetites, and to smooth the asperities of man; to make us compassionate and kind, and forgiving one to another; to make us good husbands, good fathers, good friends; and to render us active and useful in the discharge of the relative social and civil duties?

Feeling comes in aid Of feeling, and diversity of strength Attends us, if but once we have been strong.

Society has parted man from man, neglectful of the universal heart.

Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

If you want to know a person's true character, observe how he treats those who don't matter.

An intelligence that is not humane is the most dangerous thing in the world .