Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christs sake hath forgiven you. Ephesians – Bible

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

Sometimes someone says something really small, and it just fits right into this empty place in your heart. – From the television show My So-Called Life

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