It is… axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time: conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction. – W. H. Auden

Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. – Abraham Joshua Heschel