When you listen to a witness, you become a witness.

It is not always events that have touched us personally that affect us the most.

In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human.

In an inn somewhere, a wealthy guest mistakes [Rebbe Zusia] for a beggar and treats him accordingly. Later he learns his identity and comes to cry his remorse: Forgive me, Rebbe, you must - for I didn't know! Why do you ask Zusia to forgive you? Rebbe Zusia said, shaking his head and smiling. You haven't done anything bad to him; it is not Zusia you insulted but a poor beggar, so go and ask the beggars, everywhere, to forgive you!

If your suffering splashes others, those around you, those for whom you represent a reason to live, then you must kill it, choke it.

I speak from experience that even in darkness, it is possible to create light and encourage compassion. There it is: I still believe in man in spite of man.

Let not him who accepts light in an instant despise him who gropes months in shadows.

You can like somebody without agreeing with all of their policies.

Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.

If you're going to make a movie about a character who is a supervillain, it's fantastic to have a core sense of empathy for that character.

Taylor, McKenna, Abigail, and Taylor simultaneously crouched over in pain.

takes great courage to wear kindness as if one had never been hurt.