Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

People like it when others fail and suffer. They get assured they are not alone in that predicament

Violence is weakness. True strength comes not through brutality and savagery, but through tenderness, mercy and grace.

How could I not know him, ... He beat me up with savagery and brutality. I will always remember his face my whole life.

for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.

The only time you look in your neighbor's bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don't look in your neighbor's bowl to see if you have as much as them.