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

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie. – Aeschylus

Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand. – Christian Nevell Bovee

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