Quotes about Empathy

I can be a prickly personality at times, but none of it's ever malicious. I don't think anyone who really knows me on a deep level thinks I'm a bad guy. I like to think I'm a good guy.

The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much because we're all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

Forgive those who have hurt you.

There is a moral obligation that those who have should give to those who don't.

Well, your greatest joy definitely comes from doing something for another, especially when it was done with no thought of something in return.

I'm all about thoughtful gifts. If you put thought behind it - it could be $5 - but if there's thought behind it, I think that's what matters.

In this country, the people who affect things the most—how the rest of us think and feel—are comics. It's true. Because a comic needs to understand the big picture in order to fracture it and present it to people so they can see it more clearly. Comedy is the only hope for humanity.

To think of myself as a body, to be conscious of myself as a body, is to be conscious of other people's consciousness.

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

No man has believed perfectly until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.