We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.

Every word we speak calls on 37 muscles and thousands of nerves. It's not surprising that sometimes these nerves and muscles fail us.

Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.

My mother inspired me to treat others as I would want to be treated regardless of age, race or financial status.

It sounds really cheesy, but I've just really been so focused on making sure that I am nice to everyone that I work with and making the effort to get to know the people on set, whether it's the...

I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience.

I don't like to say 'dork' and 'nerd' and things like that because I think that everyone is cool in their own right.

I am a man I count nothing human foreign to me.

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good and how he treats people who can't fight back.

A sympathetic friend can be quite dear as a brother.

And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, "I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?"

The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.

We're all rejected people, we know what it is to be refused, we know what it is to be oppressed, depressed, and then, accused, and I am very much cognizant of that feeling. Nothing in the world is...

Treat others like your life depends on it.. because it does.

I truly believe that people do the best they can.

Other people are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.

If I had an ear to confide in I would cry among my treasured friends But who do you know that stops that long to help another carry on The world moves fast and it would rather pass you by than to stop...

I need them to be aware and present with me in the midst of the storm, not just tell me what to do.

"Was Philip Dexter upset?" "He's telephoned the office every day." She was pleased about that. "Who else was upset?" "Everybody. Roosevelt ordered an hour of silence while you were on the table. Like...

Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen though... that's the problem.

The world is full of broken people who think they are surrounded by whole people.

I have witnessed how the power of listening, storytelling and embracing gray areas breaks through the rigid 'us vs. them.'

The internet can be many things, of course. Too often it's a cesspool of distraction, a place we indulge in the modern sport of snark and schadenfreude, building the case for our own bigotries, where...

.. I suffered with you. I hurt with you. I bled with you - not only because we're bonded, but because the love I have for you. ~ Eric Northman in Dead in The Family.

I listened so hard because it felt like, while she was telling me stories, she was massaging my soul, letting me know that I was not alone, that I will never have to be alone, that there are friends...

Don't blame if people are too harsh on you, maybe they have been hurt badly before.

He wondered at the atrocities human kind was capable of committing. The majority of those housed below were ill, mentally or physically, not witches. Most were poor victims — the outcasts of...

That's why they call it a heartbreak. Because you really feel like your heart is breaking. It's not just an emotional pain, it's a physical pain too.

No matter which human being is considered individually, I always find reasons to conclude that sorrow and misfortune do not befit them; either because they seem too mediocre for something so great,...