Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother? – Ernst Toller
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door. – Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887
A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo and zoo animals have been known to die from stares. – Igor Stravinsky
