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"No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience."
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"And I tried it and I felt, I guess I must have been pulled in by the red light of television and now I've been on TV since 1992."

"The toughest part was doing it in front of the world and recognizing that you had gotten to a point where if you didn't do something you were going to die."
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"If you despise your people, you will disregard them. If you hate your people, you will harm them. If you esteem your people, you will serve them. If you love your people, you will even die for them."

"So bring me this man, trembling and shivering from head to foot; let me fall into his arms or down at his knees; he will weep and we shall weep, he will be eloquent and I shall be comforted, and my heart shall melt into his, he will take my soul, and I his God.But what is this kindly old gentleman to me? And what am I to him? Just one more member of the race of unfortunates, one more shade to go with the many he has seen, one more figure to add to his total of executions."

"He held out a shaky and worn hand and she met it with one of her young and inexperienced ones."

"We have to help the one who has fallen, we should not question 'why did you fall?"

"Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one."

"He sometimes wondered if she had become involved with him just so that she could cry in someone's arms. Maybe she can't cry alone, and that's why she needs me."

"To minimize hatred and oppression, our love roots must be deep and solid."

"Nowhere in the bible did it say, "Only show compassion and empathy to those you can trust." If we did that, we would be burying homeless people every day."

"Life is never easy for any one. Be gentle with one another."

"An open heart has greater power than a clenched fist."
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